Quotes About Performance

Every footballer wants to be in a starting position on the pitch.

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

It was part of my dream when I was a kid to become a footballer, is to have that pressure, to be the man who is going to be there when everything is on the line.

I understand football's changing and I'm evolving with it but stats are stats. You can run 15km if you like but I'm a footballer.

We are footballers, not artists.

You have good footballers coming out of Africa, West Africa, but they are not on the level that Eto'o played.

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

For me, happy footballers play the best football.

Daisuke Takahashi has really good footwork.

Even if I'm not a big guy, I have good footwork, I'm fast on the court, and I see the ball really early.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.

Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic.

Ben Stokes, for example, is someone who plays better when he is a bit aggressive - and that's something you don't want to take away from him.

In training, for example, when you feel your position on the team is in danger then you have to be fully focused.

For Birmingham, I scored four on my debut. It's not bad. First one was a tap-in; it set me up nice for the day, and I think I got a hat-trick in 13 minutes. So obviously I was cruising, then got one in the second half and came off!

Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.