Frank Lampard Quotes

I would worry that one morning I would wake up and be told that I can't compete any more.

Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.

Let me just be very clear: I'm just hopeful the coach doesn't dismiss me.

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.

When I came up to the main roster, it was such a different transition in seeing people pass you before your eyes. It just takes a toll on your heart because you're like 'what am I doing wrong? What can I do better? How can I be where they are?'

I've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end.

I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens.

Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

It's Chelsea and you will always have competition for places here.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

I need that fear factor in training; otherwise, I might get beat by someone I should never lose against, all because I couldn't get up in the morning.

We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work again. But I found myself questioning that paranoia, which I'd grown up with ever since I started working in the theatre in my late teens.

It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

When I was named captain under Mark Sampson, there were a lot of questions about whether I was ready for it. I wasn't a certain starter. There were more experienced players than me; I was only 25. I was trying to nail down a centre-half spot, and it was a difficult situation.

When people are talking about a player to come and take your place, you take it personally because it's your position.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

There are teams spending a lot of money and buying top players from all over the world but it is not about money - it is about your team-mates.