FRANK LAMPARD

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.