A biography for Sol Campbellhasn’t been written yet.
“I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.”
“If you get an opportunity, you get an opportunity, but it really comes down to the people behind the scenes and the manager. You can't do anything about it.”
“When I left Spurs I was one of the best defenders in the world and had done so much for such a long time with ultimately little reward. I practically kept the club up on my own for two years.”
“Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.”
“If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.”
“With Newcastle there are 50,000 people watching and they want it to be a success, and that is what I am all about.”
“I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.”
“I am going to fight on the pitch for Newcastle and if it comes to the stage where someone says can you fight for England then I will fight for England. But I am not going to go on about it. It is just not worth it.”
“I don't want to be the same person I was on the pitch. I was an angry man, focused, wanted to win... Generally, now, I'm a happy guy.”
“It's all right to have black captains and mixed-race in the under-18s and under-21s, but not for the full national side. There is a ceiling and although no one has ever said it, I believe it's made of glass.”
“As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that's all you can do in football.”
“I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.”
“That's the thing with top players, the higher you go up, the more you want. You want to push your body, push your mind, push what you want to get out of that particular season.”
“I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.”
“I think the FA wished I was white. I had the credibility, performance-wise, to be captain. I was consistently in the heart of the defence and I was a club captain early on my career.”
“Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.”
“For too long executive officials, businesspeople and hangers-on have enjoyed this private casino, using the payments into Fifa's account to fund their lavish lifestyles.”
“People may think that I just want to manage in the Premier League but I'm prepared to go to a non-league club, and if they can't pay me a salary just pay me a win bonus. I'm up for that.”
“Politics is very hard work. You have to really commit to things. Some people get into it for the wrong reasons.”
“Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.”