Paul Ince Quotes

I don't think the bottom beats the top very often in the Premier League, if ever.

When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.

When I came up with Burnley, I had my mind set that I've got a job to do in helping to keep Burnley up.

It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.

It's my objective to make sure Schalke are successful again. It's a huge challenge for me to help the club to the Bundesliga title again after years without winning any titles.

The Premier League is a very closely contested league.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

I remember when I was first time in Serie A, we were down the bottom, no one was speaking about Cagliari. And we were safe, one day before the final match. With Parma, we went down, but we were positive right to the end. There are the little details, but you have to continue.

When I went to AC Milan, they were four points away from the relegation zone, and by the end of the season, we were just one goal away from being in the Europa League.

If you lose a title, perhaps it's because your rivals are better than you are. But to be demoted from the top flight is really heartbreaking.

Relegation - that's pressure.

With Swansea the aim is to get promoted and I'm going to try everything I can to help the team get there.

You don't want to have a good couple of years, come through the Championship, have a good first year in the Premier League and then not play in the Premier League for another year or so because that is a backward step.

Obviously, when I signed for Middlesbrough, I was hoping that we would stay up and that I'd be a big player for them in the Premier League.

I do not want to play in an English club in mid-table.

If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.

Aston Villa had been in touch and they'd gone into the Premier League so I knew I could play in the Premier League just like that.

In England, there are five, six, seven big clubs, and you can never be sure who will win the title in the end. It's very exciting.

The play-offs are the sexy way to get promoted, playing in front of 90,000 people at Wembley, but you always want to do it automatically. If you come first or second, ultimately you've been better than the other teams over 46 games.

I'd love to get into the Premier League with Leeds.

I've had to work so hard in my career to get to this point, from leaving City and going to the Championship to work my way back up. I believed I could do it, and I'm grateful to Burnley and Tottenham for letting me do it in the Premier League.

I have been at Palace for more than 10 years. I will always love the club, and I want to help get them back to the Premier League, particularly for the fans who have always been so good to me.

Mohamed Al Fayed took Fulham from the second tier to where they are today.