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“Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I don't think I would have ever been successful.”
“It's annoying and disappointing that people think I just keep clubs up.”
“I knew the day I left Newport that if I came back, I'd failed. The fear of losing the game, of having to go home and tell my family, 'I tried but it didn't work out,' has haunted me. It is still there, and it is a strength and a weakness.”
“I've mellowed with my age.”
“I've come from a working class background in South Wales with eight of us in a three bedroom house. Four boys in one bed, two sisters in the other bedroom and mum and dad in the box room.”
“Everything about the Premier League is wonderful, even when you get beat.”
“I enjoy the gym. I think if you're fit in your body, you're fit in your mind. So I get up most mornings and I'm first there usually. I stay in there for an hour, an hour and a half, do my work, shower and then I have a nice breakfast.”
“I watched Cardiff when I was a young boy. I also watched Newport. If I wasn't playing games on Saturday, for Newport YMCA or Pill, I would jump on a train and get to watch Cardiff.”
“You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.”
“Look, you are going to get criticism if things don't go well.”
“You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.”
“If you don't work hard at it, nothing's given in this game.”
“Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing.”
“I've actually carried the Olympic torch through Stoke-on-Trent.”
“What really, really matters is the dressing room and the people on the training ground being very, very focused in what we are trying to achieve on and off the ball.”
“I've always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I've been in the game so long.”
“When you have seven grandchildren and you've been around them a while, they soften you up. But there's still that little streak in me that if I need to make sure something has to be done, then it gets done.”
“When you lose a game you still get as disappointed, 24 years on. Losing a game of football, even when you have played well, kills you.”
“English football, especially Premier League football, is different to most football on the continent.”
“I accept that in life and football you have good times and bad, and it's how you deal with it.”