Joey Barton

“If you can get Mourinho, you've got to get Mourinho.”

“I love Newcastle.”

“I see pundits on the box, saying kids will watch 'Match of the Day' and copy what they see, but if you tell your children to live their lives exactly as they see footballers on the telly doing it, you must be a bit of an idiot.”

“From as early as I can remember my family let me have my own pools coupon, and older members of the family would place bets for me on big races like the Grand National.”

“I got into NFL that way - watching it without really understanding the rules and then the more I watched it the more I understood the rules.”

“That feeling of being powerless, apart from making some tactical changes, is tough for somebody like me.”

“I hope everybody loves me as a coach and loves me as a manager, but I'm realistic.”

“The more money you have, the more problems you have.”

“I left Newcastle and I fell out with Mike Ashley and I was looking for a new home and I was about to start a new family and it became, 'Who is the highest bidder.'”

“Where I grew up, fathers would have bets on whose kids were the toughest and we were put together in the garden - almost like illegal boxing fights.”

“I was at school and trying to fit in, like most kids, I didn't want to be outside the herd. Then all of a sudden I'm reading Morrissey in magazines saying he knew he was peculiar, and he embraced it. I was like 'Wow, what strength of character that must take, to be like that.'”

“There were a lot of players more technically gifted than me but what I had was an ability to harness my anger at the world.”

“I signed for a club when I was eight and went straight from school into a YTS academy. I've never lived in the real world.”

“I was really talented at football and my mind was opened up by it.”

“I didn't think I was capable of getting depressed.”

“It's a different sport though really, in essence - women's football should be adjusted for women, physiologically, biologically.”

“For 28 years, I'd never accept praise. If you said something negative I'd latch on to that for a week.”

“I'm English and I love playing for my country. Maybe the people at the top have a problem with me. I don't know.”

“Sometimes you can stay in a space too long.”

“I've been critical of Jurgen Klopp, certainly when I was working for talkSPORT, I didn't feel they were learning lessons.”