Troy Deeney

“How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.”

“If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.”

“Obviously everyone wants to play a certain way but when you get into certain moments you need someone to hold it up or if you are losing a game, go long.”

“Certainly when I was a kid, in the early '90s, men couldn't show weakness. It was very much a case of suppressing pain and getting on with it. I remember when I was six years old, I was playing football with kids who were three years older when, one day, I fell over and began to cry. And my dad was like, 'Don't ever let someone see you cry.'”

“Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.”

“People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.”

“If I play at Wembley and score I will be a hero, but I am still normal Troy, making mistakes and trying to learn and improve on a day-to-day basis.”

“When you are not having the best of moments in front of goal, just smash it down the middle.”

“I grew up in pubs so my whole thing is 'the game happened,' people would go into the pub afterwards and discuss 'it should have been a penalty, he should have scored that.'”

“My life has thrown up many challenges, good and bad, and nine times out of 10 I come through them.”

“At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.”

“I loved watching Arsenal, my son's an Arsenal fan.”

“My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.”

“It's perceived that money can take care of anything but in my experience it makes everything 15 times harder because you can't act 'normal' and you're not allowed to be vulnerable or weak but we all are.”

“When you get into that mould of being a super sub you can't go back.”

“I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.”

“I just got a lot of expectations and pressure on me, but it is what it is. I've got the best job in the world, I work two or three hours a day and get paid handsomely for it.”

“I've said for a very long time that I've got a massive respect for Joe Gomez.”

“Dad was involved in a lot of crime and the police were regularly coming to our door looking for him. From the age of three he always made sure I had a football and he'd make me play with much bigger kids. But he'd tell them, 'Kick him and if he moans he'll come in.' So I got taught to grow up very quickly.”

“I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do.”