If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.

I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.

Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.

The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.

I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.

Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.

Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.