Michael Owen Quotes

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

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

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.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

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.

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.

[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.

The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

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.

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.

I have always been confident that I would make it to the top.

Bayern Munich are probably the standout team on the planet.

There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.

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.

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.

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.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

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.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

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.

I was born to score goals, I feel.

It was a real eye opener and I'm really pleased that I spent a year out there [in Real Madrid].

A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don't have feelings straight away

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.

The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

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.

I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

All Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now.

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)

Henry had taken striking on to a different level

Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.