The Premiership is maybe the best league, it's a very high level.

Everybody wants to play in the Premiership and I like a big challenge.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

It is a normal thing for a young player to want to prove himself in the Premiership.

Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.

Everybody likes attacking football; the Premiership is the most exciting league in the world.

My Nigerian colleagues gave me a good impression of the Premiership and I am glad to be here.

I prefer to play in Spain than in the Premiership. Spanish football is more like my qualities.

Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that.

I want to prove myself at Chelsea and be successful in the Premiership and the Champions League.

The Premiership is where you want to be; everyone does. Otherwise, you question people's ambition.

Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

I've wanted to be a part of the Premiership for some time, to experience the excitement and the atmosphere.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

It is a very physical league but if I can play in the Premiership then I won't have any problems playing in the Championship.

Players who play in the Premiership play everywhere - they are strong, quick, and have good technique. It is the best football.

Look at me - I'm the daughter of migrants and I certainly felt on the ground very early on in my premiership that people did warm to me.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

Sometimes people, not the players, play the game before it's started and that's a problem because there are no small teams in the Premiership.

I don't know how many 19 year-olds are playing in the Championship, there's certainly not any playing in the Premiership. It depends on what type of character you are really.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

Ever since Theresa May's premiership, I have become suspicious of the 'lectern moment'. That is when the prime minister steps outside Downing Street to address the nation on Brexit.

The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

Some referees have to think about treating every player the same, even if it's Ronaldinho or another player from a Premiership club. It doesn't matter how good you are: you have to be treated the same.

I'm really proud of a lot of the achievements we've made as a government but obviously I'll be putting my mark on the premiership and doing things that I think are important in terms of my own personal priority.

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

Chelsea were looking at me, and one day I would love to play in The Premiership - for the fans, not the money. They can be losing 4-0 and still be cheering. That, more than anything, would attract me to The Premiership.

I have some special things at home, but not too many. I've got two shirts framed - that's all - my first Premiership final with Saracens and my first England cap. They're not signed by anyone; they're not even washed. They stink!

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.

We know you have good runs and bad runs. The big thing you learn in the Premiership is you have to take it on the chin. You have learn how to lose without getting too down and too despondent. You have to box that up, put it to one side and make sure everyone who counts stays positive.

I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.

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