Alan Smith Quotes

The Premier League is at the top, and everyone wants to be in the top leagues.

I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.

The Premier League is a very closely contested league.

My playing career that was a bit up but mostly down. I played in the Premier League at Southampton but most of my career was in the lower divisions.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

It's difficult in the Premier League.

I'm happy in the Premier League.

The idea that I might finish my career without going to the Premier League, it is not possible.

I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.

Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

United need to be in the Champions League.

Once I came out of the First Division with Norwich, it was great.

We have been out of the top-flight for 16 years and I am thrilled for the whole club and our incredible fans that we are back in the Premier League.

I hope that the future is great for West Ham.

Relegation - that's pressure.

In the Premier League, there is a team above the others. This team is Manchester City. Then there is a very good team, Liverpool.

The Premier League is a results business.

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

It was a great time working at Reading, especially the first season getting very close to going to the Premier League.

For me, the Premier League is full of quality, and the clubs competing at the top are the same who compete at the top of Europe every year.

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

We all know the Premier League is a competitive league and that every game is competitive.

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.