Jamie Redknapp Quotes

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.

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

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

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

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

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

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

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arsenal have been literally passed to death.

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.

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

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

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

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

But I just want to be known for my football.

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.

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

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

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

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

Frank Lampard has a vision for seeing things

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

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas

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

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

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 haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

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