Quotes About Football

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

I think the first time I finished a season with the same manager who started it was Martin O'Neill at Villa, probably five seasons into my career.

Hopefully I can challenge myself and establish myself as a Premier League player for Aston Villa.

I've said it for a long time that Aston Villa is a special club.

Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, they showed me what is English football. It's tough, it's difficult and they showed me how life is like in professional football.

I left Birmingham for Wigan because I was impressed with what Paul Jewell was doing, but I ended up back with the gaffer at Villa.

I never thought I'd be in a position like I was at Aston Villa where people weren't going to get paid on a Friday. That's how bad it was. It looks great from the outside but we had huge financial problems for months.

I joined Aston Villa to improve myself in the Premier League. It started well but then I got injured and Villa ended up having five managers that season.

I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I'm also into ice hockey.

When Martin O'Neill spent £9m on me to take me to Villa, it was a massive boost.

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

Until I went to Aston Villa I was scoring 'X' amount. It just did not happen there. That is it. I have seen it happen with loads of players.

I played at Aston Villa for four years and most of the time I loved it there, but typically it took me a while to settle in.

I can never shut the door on Aston Villa but I think it's blatantly obvious for everyone looking at it that it's done.

You never stop learning in football management and I certainly believe the invaluable experience from my time as Villa manager will prove hugely beneficial in the next stage of my managerial career.

Aston Villa had been in touch and they'd gone into the Premier League so I knew I could play in the Premier League just like that.

How can you not score goals in Barca! While defenders have trouble dealing with Messi, Villa and Bojan, they forgot about me.

If you understand the magnitude of how big a football club Aston Villa is, there's a lot to be excited about.

Stats can do anything you wish. When we got the sack at Aston Villa it came out there had only been Man City in that calendar year who had scored more goals than Villa.

When I first showed up at Villa I thought we had a weird old dressing room.

Im from the East Midlands, and when I was playing youth team football, it was in the U18 Midlands league and Villa were the biggest team.

I'd rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in household chores, run for hours on the streets of Dhing, play football with my Mon Jai group friends.