Quotes About Leicester

Going to Leicester, suddenly, football was just my living. This was the way I was going to support my family. That is when I started to mature as a player.

I'm at Leicester and with Brendan Rodgers coming in we're all loving him being there and that's where my head's at.

When I see Wales qualifying for the Euros and Leicester top of the league, I wish I was still playing.

I've seen phenomenal work in Leicester where people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease use telecare to measure their own oxygen levels, and if they need to change their meds they get a phonecall from a nurse who has seen the results of their readings.

One of the things I am grateful for is that I was able to make contact again with Khun Vichai and work with him again. I still have an awful lot of admiration, warmth and respect for how he worked. I still feel that connection to the people I worked with at Leicester.

It was amazing to have Mourinho call me, even though I'd been warned before how he would appeal to me. I listened to his arguments about why I should move to United. But at that time I was hesitant between staying at Leicester or leaving for Chelsea.

It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League - and he is a future Manchester United manager.

My childhood was spent in a poorish neighbourhood in Leicester so that makes you cherish money more than if youd had a lot.

I was out on loan at Barnsley when United accepted an offer for me from Leicester and that was it really. I just had to concentrate on my new club.

I've got a lot of respect for Claude Puel because he brought me to Leicester and to the Premier League and played me in most of the games. I have a lot of respect on that front.

The love the people of Leicester showed towards me was incredible. Even more than winning the Premier League.

The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

I am crazy about Leicester; I am crazy about the owners - they are fantastic and really good for the Premier League.

I've had the four best seasons of my career at Leicester and have loved every moment. I feel immense pride to have been a part of what we have achieved during my time at the club, culminating in becoming Premier League champions.

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary.

Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.

The crazy thing about my story is that I only came to Leicester City because Leeds didn't want me. A lot of footballers say that, and it's almost a cliche. But the chairman literally told me that they didn't want me.

The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

My first role in catering was front-of-house, at five or six, at my parents' restaurant in Leicester. Me and my brother were dressed in tuxedos and we'd greet guests and be paraded around like show ponies.

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

Signing for Leicester, they gave me a great platform to go and play for England as well.