Patrick Bamford Quotes

If I have a keeper who makes a mistake in consecutive games and is dropped, when he plays again, there is pressure on him because that is the level of the game we are at.

Going to Leicester, suddenly, football was just my living. This was the way I was going to support my family. That is when I started to mature as a player.

At Real Madrid, we have many good players that the team can learn from.

As far as Sao Paulo are concerned, I've never played for a club as well-structured as this.

You want the world-class players playing at the World Cup, and you want them to do themselves justice.

When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a company loading vegetables onto trucks.

If I do well at Chelsea, then the national team will take care of itself.

I don't know if I'll end my career here. Perhaps by the time I am 33, Lazio will be so successful that they need more important players than me.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

From a footballer's point of view, if you want to choose a football club, then Arsenal is right up there with the best.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

From the moment I left Sao Paulo and Brazil, I was fixed on staying here, playing for the first team and succeeding at Real Madrid. That was always my dream. But it was an advantage to be able to join Castilla first.

Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

At Atletico, I've improved at the highest level, and in the Champions League, I've turned a corner.

It's obviously important for the English national team if you have a lot of players playing big matches. You are more mature and know how to cope.

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.

It's hard to compare the faith of Gareth Southgate and Roy Hodgson and my lack of chances at Chelsea because it's such a big club.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

I'd had success with the junior England teams.

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.