A biography for Mark Noblehasn’t been written yet.
“I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.”
“Refs won't get everything right but those decisions really hurt teams.”
“I know Billy Bonds quite well and he is a fantastic person and was a fantastic player.”
“I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.”
“To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.”
“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.”
“When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.”
“I don't think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we've lost it's the end of the world for me but he will say: 'I don't think you realise - you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.'”
“I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.”
“I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.”
“My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.”
“I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.”
“I don't think I'm a bad egg.”
“I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.”
“When results go against you, that's when you really test how good you are as a team.”
“The Premier League is a results business.”
“I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive me there after work. Sometimes we were in traffic for two hours. They wanted to keep me but I wasn't getting home until nearly 11 P. M. I loved it there but it wasn't right, so I came to West Ham and haven't looked back.”
“Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'”
“To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.”
“You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.”