Alan Shearer Quotes

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

You never get fed up scoring goals.

I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.

I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.

You only get one chance of an England debut.

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

This is the better one. It's identical.

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.