Jamie Redknapp Quotes

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

Most goals are scored between the posts.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

But I just want to be known for my football.

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

Suarez will improve and he will get better.

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things.

Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year... his fellow players.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

As I say, you get labeled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

I cried at my son's sports day, for God's sake. I'm a huge baby

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

Frank Lampard has a vision for seeing things.

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

You have to be professional and think about the future.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

Arsenal have been literally passed to death.

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.