I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
— Gary Lineker
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.
In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
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.
You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.
The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.
Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.
Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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.
Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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.
I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
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.
I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.
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.
I'm in good shape.
The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.
In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.
I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
