Jermain Defoe Quotes

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

I would like to play for a club who I feel have true ambition.

At Arsenal and the so-called big clubs, you always know that there will be a bigger spotlight on every single position.

Yes, there is a lot of competition for places at Liverpool but that's the same at every top club. It was like that when I was at Ajax and that isn't a problem for me.

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

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

At the top end of the Premier League, you have to be ruthless. Even just to get in the top four is hard.

At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.

Everyone in the Champions League has quality.

At Real Madrid, you have to win everything.

At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

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.

I play for pleasure, for the passion that I have as a football player.

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

I love everything about football.

For us at Ajax, it is all about football.

The football fans loved the way I played the game.

In football, you never know what can happen.

I have a smile on my face because I am back on the pitch.