A biography for Robert Snodgrasshasn’t been written yet.
“Luckily, I have a thing inside me that I wake up and I am happy every day. But boys and girls want to live the dream and are looking at everything you do on a day-to-day basis.”
“I'd love to get into the Premier League with Leeds.”
“My mum has had heart-attacks, a stroke, and it all coincided with me being called up for Scotland so the timing was not good. Thankfully, she is a great woman.”
“When I saw there was interest from West Ham I wanted to become a part of what they are building here.”
“To get the best out of any player you need to play him in his best position, it's as simple as that.”
“That's the beauty of the play-offs, it's the fear of losing that drives you forwards.”
“The scaffolders and builders from demolition companies nearby used to play each other for 20 quid a man - the tackles were mad. I played for the local estate against them one day and we won, there was a full-scale riot. 'He's a ringer' they were saying. Half of them were drunk so I could get the ball and just run and around them - I was only 12!”
“This is what footballers are used to. You're used to playing matches throughout the Christmas period so for us it doesn't feel weird. We're working on Christmas Day and we've always done it.”
“I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.”
“I'll say to you truthfully - I don't want be away from my three kids, but I'm here because I love playing for Scotland.”
“For me, it was just a case of seeing what stage I could actually get to. For every kid it's the same, you don't know how far you can go until you get a bit older and things start to become a reality.”
“You want to have a great pre-season, you want to play games.”
“I think you go through a stage where you're constantly asking questions because you're learning every day, and when it's like that you need to bring results with it.”
“I've got nothing to prove to anyone.”
“You only get half a chance sometimes against these big boys in the Premier League.”
“I've been brought up with a family that is patriotic and loved the Scotland-England games so to see it first hand when we played down there at Wembley and lost 3-2, with goals from set pieces, it was hard to take.”
“I've shown I can perform at Premier League level and that's where I want to be playing for the next few years. That's where I want to stay, it's the big league and I'm driving towards being there for as long as I possibly can.”
“I'm not a left midfielder. I hate that position, I don't like it.”
“I trained at Celtic when I was a kid. I used to train at Rangers as well. I wore my Celtic shorts underneath my Rangers shorts when I trained there!”
“One thing the Scottish boys want in the changing room is the bragging rights over the English lads.”