Gary Lineker Quotes

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."

"The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend."

"I'm in good shape."

"Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children."

"My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways."

"People make mistakes. They say stupid things."

"Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'."

"Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football."

"We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money."

"Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players."

"We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart."

"When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match."

"The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been."

"Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through."

"In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football."

"I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too."

"My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage."

"It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world."

"It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect."

"If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't."

"I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment."

"We do not want to alienate supporters."

"It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League."

"My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather."

"That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever."

"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."

"The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to."

"If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it."

"I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him."

"I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice."