Not to win is guttering.

I don't think I'm a bad egg.

I feel a lot older than I am.

The Premier League is a results business.

It's a fear of failure which drives me on.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

Chicharito is a goal machine - he gets one chance and scores.

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.

I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.

I know Billy Bonds quite well and he is a fantastic person and was a fantastic player.

I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.

I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.

I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.

I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.

I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of 'I can't lose today.'

The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.

You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.

If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.

I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'

When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.

The way football is, sometimes, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. You have to dig yourselves out of that by simply working hard and sticking together.

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.

I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.

You want to play in the Premier League, full stop. You don't want to play in the Championship. I've played there and I don't want to play there again for West Ham.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

When I was a youngster, my dream was to play in the first team. I was constantly thinking, 'Will I make a career in football? Am I going to have to go out and get a job?'

My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.

I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.

You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.

When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.

To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.

None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.

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