Troy Deeney

“My dad had always worked hard to make sure that I had nice stuff and he died at 47 so I just want to make sure that if something like that happens to me, my son would have everything ready.”

“What matters to me is that my four kids think I'm a good dad.”

“It's heartbreaking for the people who work behind the scenes. A lot of people who are at clubs normally get affected by relegation. We feel sorry for them.”

“To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.”

“Do I give up? No.”

“My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.”

“Relegation has happened to plenty of players who were bigger names than me.”

“I still find it a bit surreal that Sir Elton John can call Troy Deeney from Chelmsley. It's quite entertaining but a bit surreal.”

“The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.”

“As footballers that's what we do when it comes to bonuses. we don't sit there and go 'yeah can I get £20million as a bonus.' You have to sit down, 'how much money does the club make, what's their reported loss.' You have to sit and go through it all and go OK, this is what you take, we feel that we should get that if we do this.”

“I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.”

“Huth is the sort of centre-half who will let you know he is there, so to speak, with a challenge or two early in the game.”

“I remember a life before social media. I remember phone boxes, that's what I grew up on.”

“Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.”

“None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.”

“I saw some comments in regards to my son, people saying: 'I hope your son gets corona.' That's the hard part for me. If you respond to that, people then go: 'Ah, we've got him' and they keep doing it.”

“I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016.”

“People always say to me, 'It must be so much pressure and so difficult playing out there in front of 60,000 people.' I always say, 'No, not really.' Playing football and earning great money isn't difficult. Working three jobs and raising kids alone, which is what my Mum did. That's difficult.”

“There's always going to be setbacks.”

“We're trying to be real in a fake world. How does that work? You're always going to lose. I just be me.”