"They are all like prostitutes: they smoke, they're lazy, and they sleep all day."

"We are a good, average team."

"One year I've played 15 months."

"The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices."

"Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic."

"Abroad, a perfect World Cup in Germany is taken as a given because the Germans are regarded as perfectionists there."