Leeds is quite laid-back.

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.

I know Jonny Howson well because he's a Leeds boy.

I'd love to get into the Premier League with Leeds.

I'd go back to Leeds at any time, but not right now.

I remember getting my first Leeds shirt, me and my brother.

When I was a kid it was my dream to play for Leeds, and I did that.

I was a vocal presence in the dressing room as an 18-year-old at Leeds.

I've been fortunate enough to play for Leeds and Anderlecht, who are massive in Belgium.

I had opportunities in other countries - I never thought about England and Leeds United.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

In my past, I've been blessed to be able to play in front of the Leeds fans and Anderlecht fans.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

My family are all Leeds fans, they always tell me about the times when Leeds were in the Premier League.

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

Leeds United is one of England's greatest and most well-supported clubs with a rich history known all over the world.

But I was club captain at Leeds, club captain at Fulham. If you've got a bad attitude you're not getting those honours.

I learned a lot in my last year at Livingston and even more since coming to Leeds, as a player and on the sports science side.

Despite what some people think, I never asked to leave. I'd just been made captain of Leeds which in my eyes is a big, big deal.

I have no bad feelings towards Leeds. The fans were amazing and I hope, for their sake especially, that they get what they deserve.

All of our boys are willing to fight for the shirt every week and having that character is important to being a Leeds United player.

All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old enough to drive yet - so I had to get picked up and taken in!

Tony Currie was another great favourite, even if he only played for a short time at Leeds. His wife told me once that she was a big fan of 'My Hero'.

Thank you to all of the fans and everybody connected with Norwich City, West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Chelsea.

I was in Leeds, just starting out, and I was hypnotising one person up on stage. Suddenly I had members of the crowd unsuspectingly go to sleep on me as well.

But what I say to people who don't know me and listen to people who say I'm a bad egg or whatever is that I was club captain at Fulham and club captain at Leeds.

I had the chance to play with Alan Shearer to join the list of class players I'd played with at a young age at Leeds - the Vidukas, Smiths, Kewells, and Woodgates.

I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn't really fancy it.

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

We all went for roles as extras at my school because a lot of children's shows were filmed in Leeds near where I grew up. My Parents are Aliens was a big one we all did.

I've been looking forward to going back to Huddersfield. I was manager when the club moved from Leeds Road to the new stadium and it contributed to us getting promotion.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

I was going to a good club in Newcastle and working with an unbelievable manager in Bobby Robson. It was the best for Leeds, and in the end, it worked out well for me as well.

There is hope to catch up, as long as Leeds get to the Premier League. I feel with a project an idea and people of quality we can close the gap on clubs with a different budget.

Johnny Giles is my favourite Leeds player, without doubt. He was a fierce competitor. I met him once, at a black-tie event in Dublin, which was one of the great nights of my life.

Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

I'd gone to watch Wortley play in their home tournament but they didn't have enough players so I played for them. I got scouted by a guy called Sonny Sweeney and went to Leeds City Boys.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

For Leeds, we have a history of being 'dirty Leeds' and we actually channel that. We want to play great football and we are doing that but we also need to fight every time we go on to the pitch.

I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, me and my brother, and watch 'Match of the Day.' I love the club. I want nothing but success for the club.

I'm from Leeds so it's a big part of me and I like getting to know people, find out about them, see different backgrounds and where they've come from. Sometimes the struggles relate to my own struggles.

We should concede that a club like Leeds that is watched by 500,00 to 600,000 people live on Sky, getting from the league only £2m to 2.5m and are actually penalised because we are more than 20 times on TV.

I know Leeds have had a few Scottish captains but I don't look too much to that because you can get lost in the history of the club. There's so much good history but it's all about the present and the future.

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