A biography for Jonathan Woodgatehasn’t been written yet.
“Walking out at Wembley in my Boro gear will feel fantastic.”
“But I get nervous before every game, even friendlies. As soon as I wake up on game days, bang, there's an ache in my belly.”
“With injured players, you have to speak to them because they do struggle with it. Even if it is just a hello. A conversation about what they did last night. It makes them feel better that someone is caring about them and the injury. That's how I look at it.”
“If there's someone suffering with their mental health, go and speak to someone, whether it's a friend or whoever. Open up to them, and see if they can help you and point you in the right direction.”
“All I wanted to do as a young lad was play for Boro in a final and I'm doing that. Playing for your home-town club makes it massive. This club needs to be back in the Premier League. Promotion would be fantastic for the town.”
“When you're on the sidelines you don't really notice anything, fans giving you abuse. Sometimes when you watch the games on Sky and you see one of the players get really close to the crowd and they're absolutely abusing him.”
“I went to every game at Ayresome Park until I joined Leeds as a schoolboy. I had to be ballboy and stuff at Leeds, so it stopped.”
“My dad, my mum and my sister were there and were over the moon to see me finally playing for Middlesbrough.”
“If you keep thinking over and over again what went wrong and what you could've done better, you're going to make it worse for yourself. You find it tough but you have to move on quick.”
“I'm not a sad bloke. I'm an optimist.”
“Failure is the one word I'd use about Madrid.”