Quotes About Football

I coach defending an awful lot but I don't think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs.

The England team shouldn't be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you've got a Premier League player playing in the Championship.

We've got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we've got fewer and fewer English players playing in that league.

I want to be playing in the Premier League.

Moving to London enables me to fulfil a dream and a further step in my career. The Premier League has always represented a great challenge for me.

In the Premier League, you can't play against anyone if you don't play at a high pace.

Experience is a big thing when playing in the Premier League - it's a different game to any other league.

I've played in Serie A, the Bundesliga, Holland and now the Premier League. They are all different.

It took me a little bit of time in the Premier League. I came back from an ACL and got one goal in I think six months at Crystal Palace. It wasn't great but I got to grips with the Premier League, started to understand what it's about because it's very different to the lower leagues.

The game shapes you. I played for 20 years at all levels, apart from the Premier League. I had a disaster at Bristol City, where in two years I learnt more about myself, the industry, fans, how you get treated, than I ever learnt in my career.

The best players in the world play in the Premier League and therefore it is the best league.

We have six teams at the level of Bayern Munich in the Premier League.

I've said it plenty of times before, I do believe Molineux is the best place in the Premier League to play football. The atmosphere's incredible.

In the Premier League you need creative players to open games up.

You want to play in the Premier League, full stop. You don't want to play in the Championship. I've played there and I don't want to play there again for West Ham.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

I think the Premier League is the best league in the world.

I haven't had many problems adapting to the Premier League.

The Premier League is a notch above. It's maybe the best league in the world.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.

I had a good contract at Southampton, the managers in the Premier League are very well paid, but in football you need ambition.

I respect and admire the Premier League.

We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.

If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.