1.
I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.
Michael Owen
2.
There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
Michael Owen
3.
I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart
Michael Owen
4.
Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.
Michael Owen
5.
I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them
Michael Owen
6.
I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.
Michael Owen
7.
If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
Michael Owen
8.
To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.
Michael Owen
9.
To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.
Michael Owen
10.
You need people who score goals. That's how you win games
Michael Owen
11.
When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.
Michael Owen
12.
You're on your own out there with ten mates.
Michael Owen
13.
I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.
Michael Owen
14.
To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.
Michael Owen
15.
I think in terms of best players, I would have to say Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, the Brazilian one. I was fortunate enough to have a year with him at Real Madrid. He was at the end of his career and was probably half the player he was. But, in his prime, he was quite simply astonishing.
Michael Owen
16.
If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.
Michael Owen
17.
I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.
Michael Owen
18.
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
Michael Owen
19.
He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall.
(on Peter Crouch)
Michael Owen
20.
I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.
Michael Owen
21.
I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.
Michael Owen
22.
[Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.
Michael Owen
23.
The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.
Michael Owen
24.
England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers
Michael Owen
25.
You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.
Michael Owen
26.
While the World Cup is great every four years, I think people struggle to get themselves excited about qualifiers against the smaller nations. It will take some good performances from the national team to get the feel-good factor back, as far as the England team goes at least.
Michael Owen
27.
I have always been confident that I would make it to the top.
Michael Owen
28.
Bayern Munich are probably the standout team on the planet.
Michael Owen
29.
There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.
Michael Owen
30.
I've always been a player that likes to get round the back and get crosses in for other people. When I first burst on to the scene some people only saw the goals I was scoring. More recently they've taken notice of the goals I've set up. It is nice to be recognized for that.
Michael Owen
31.
The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.
Michael Owen
32.
Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.
Michael Owen
33.
Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward's dream, you could make a run and he'd put the ball perfectly in your path. Any footballer you ask will always tell you that Scholesy was one of the best players they've ever played with.
Michael Owen
34.
If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.
Michael Owen
35.
For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.
Michael Owen
36.
There's nothing quite like a World Cup.
Michael Owen
37.
I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.
Michael Owen
38.
I was born to score goals, I feel.
Michael Owen
39.
It was a real eye opener and I'm really pleased that I spent a year out there [in Real Madrid].
Michael Owen
40.
A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don't have feelings straight away
Michael Owen
41.
Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.
Michael Owen
42.
The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.
Michael Owen
43.
Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.
Michael Owen
44.
I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.
Michael Owen
45.
I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.
Michael Owen
46.
All Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now.
Michael Owen
47.
The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football.
(on returning to the premiership)
Michael Owen
48.
Henry had taken striking on to a different level
Michael Owen
49.
Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.
Michael Owen
50.
My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.
Michael Owen
