Vinnie Jones

“Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.”

“I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do.”

“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.”

“When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.”

“John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.”

“The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.”

“I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.”

“I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.”

“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.”

“Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.”

“In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.”

“I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.”

“After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'”

“I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.”

“People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.”

“I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.”

“Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.”

“I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.”