Jonjo Shelvey

“If there's a problem and you want to do something after then we'll go and talk about it after, but for me you shake hands at the end of the game and get on with it.”

“When I was eight or nine, we had a goal in the back yard of our council flat. We used to flip it over the back fence and take it out onto the estate. Everyone would come out and we'd play for hours, there were cars screeching to a halt when the ball went on the road.”

“Don't get me wrong, by the time I finish I will have had a fantastic career. But you do sit there sometimes and think, 'could I have gone higher? Could I have been playing in the Champions League?'”

“When you're playing once and then not playing for six games, I don't care what any footballer says, you don't feel involved. You don't feel part of the team.”

“People I played with at Swansea will tell you that I wasn't laid-back when I was there. I just wanted to win so much on the training pitch that I'd end up falling out with people.”

“I wasn't happy playing one or two games then coming out of the team. I wanted to carry on playing week in, week out.”

“I welcome the responsibility of being a key player. I want to put on a show every week. I want to be a leader.”

“I'd have liked to have played in the Gascoigne era, but there is so much sport science around, you have to change with it.”

“I couldn't care less what people have got to say as long as I have the backing from the people that matter - the gaffer, family, and my team-mates - and they know what I am like as a person on and off the pitch. That's all that matters.”

“I think I always stressed myself out as a kid, and alopecia can be caused by stress.”

“I have always been confident in my ability on the ball and I don't think anyone should ever doubt me in terms of that.”

“Every decision I've made in my career was just to play, to try and get as much game-time as possible. I can't say I've got too many regrets.”

“The way I see it is, the better you play, the more money you're going to earn. It's like working in a car garage, the more cars you sell, the more money you're going to earn at the end of the day. It's how life works.”

“With so many training sessions you forget what you have done when you look back at the end of the week so you have the little book and write the date down and there you go.”

“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.”

“I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers.”

“I get labelled lazy maybe because of my body language; I'm quite laid-back.”

“I've always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year out because I wanted to play with my mates and get that competitiveness back. I got that fighting spirit and I never want to lose that.”

“When you die, I think you re-live your life in a different dimension, in a different world but I don't believe in aliens.”

“I'd gone very quickly from playing in a park with my mates to sitting next to Wayne Rooney at dinner. It was a bit weird.”