A biography for Peter Crouchhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.”
“There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.”
“If you're different in any way at school,then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.”
“I do a fantastic job for a living: I get to play in front of 90,000, and obviously, everyone knows your name and what have you. But I'm no better than anyone else.”
“When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.”
“Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!”
“I'm 6ft 7in, so I have a massive bed.”
“Spending time in Sweden on loan was one of the best things I ever did.”
“I don't know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It's a real strange thing.”
“For whatever reason, I have got a few goals against Arsenal, so I do enjoy playing against them.”
“I once walked out of a nightclub with my team-mates to see our star midfielder reclining across the bonnet of a Ferrari, arms folded, waiting for girls to come out so he could wink at them and then progress it from there. I have no idea how long he'd been waiting. I do know it wasn't even his Ferrari.”
“There is one thing that I would really enjoy, and that is, of course, to get 100 Premier League goals.”
“It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.”
“The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.”
“It's nice when you can enjoy yourself and make people smile.”
“Everyone that I have taken the mick out of, or told a story about, is someone I know properly or someone who has been a team-mate, and I know can take it. I am not stitching anyone up.”
“When I was a kid, the FA Cup was the one: it was bigger than the European Cup, even. So to win that, for me, and my dad as well - we used to watch it together - was brilliant.”
“If you go from being a kid at school to being on £60,000 a week, that can be hard to deal with. I didn't have that, and maybe that's kept me a bit more grounded than some players.”
“Nothing can prepare you fully for how harsh football fans can be, but it makes you more robust, able to deal with a lot of what is thrown at you in life.”
“I've never been renowned for electric pace. It doesn't seem to have held me back.”