Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Parker

I remember the first time I got paid, I went out and spent my wages on clothes. Style has always been a massive focal point for me.

When I stop playing I'll want a new challenge. I couldn't just do nothing.

My dad told me to tuck my shirt in, look good and respect the game, so that has become embedded in me.

I'm familiar with Bournemouth because of my relationship with Harry Arter. It's a football club I know well from watching him over the years.

I keep telling the players to enjoy the good moments. There are too many moments in this world currently that are pretty miserable and downbeat, so if there is light at certain times, I want them to enjoy it.

You see it every week, when a player makes a mistake, his first action is to try and put it right, and nine times out of 10 the first thing they do when they've made a mistake is take out everyone in front of them because they want to make amends.

In football, especially at international level, opportunities come along and you have to grab them.

We want to see goals and excitement but I am sorry to say that VAR is killing every part of that. You are losing the raw emotion of the game we absolutely love.

There is always going to be a point where your form becomes patchy and it's down to how long it lasts really.

There is a process at Fulham how they sign players. The owner is the owner, but I do have a say and will give my opinion.'

My drive and passion is to be out there, to try to coach a team, to influence a side and give them something we can be proud of. This course is a big commitment, one I've taken on while still playing. But this is what I want to do.

I am really into looking as smart as I can and have been since I was a kid.

I've got four boys. They're different animals to what I was like.

I like dealing with people. I like being around people, and that side of me can try to get the best out of others, really. As a player and as a captain, I felt I did that.

I think experience is vital for that. You become wiser: you know where to be, what positions to take up, how to play it.

After a couple of sessions you know if a coach knows what he is doing.

The journey you go on, the ups and downs, I'm the face that fronts it up. But behind the scenes is a support network of people that keep you going.

You always worry about how the players are seeing it when you're losing games, so you've got to keep your messages very clear in their minds.

As a young lad you go on adrenalin. You run out, look at the crowd, run around at 100mph and you can do it.

As a manager, first and foremost I want a team with a good mentality, a team with character, a team that represents the club and the fans.

When you are pushed out of your comfort zone, that's when you realise you may have to learn a little bit more.

I had a fantastic time at Fulham, I'm very, very proud to lead the club, I have nothing but admiration.

I need to keep performing because there are so many players behind me, for club and country, who are willing to take my place. But I know if I maintain my form and focus, good things will come of it.

When I watch the best in the world, I want to be like them. We all have a fascination, all of us, with Spain.

We live in a world and a profession where you win a game, you lose the next one and you're deemed a failure.

My England career had been very up and down - I had been involved in some squads, and not in others, so it had been very patchy.

We want hungry players, players who have a burning ambition to play in the Premier League and stay in the Premier League for years to come.

I defend and track my runners but, if there's another big asset you need as a midfielder, it's to score goals. I scored goals in the reserves and the youth team but since I've got into the first team I've lost that a little bit.

I came from Charlton, and no disrespect to them, but I was there from the age of nine and going to Chelsea when I was 21 or 22, I had never experienced or seen world-class players or people in that sense.

Management isn't just about tactics and what happens on the training ground or in a game. Of course you need those skills. But what you also need is people skills.

We are trying to make football so pure and sterile it becomes unrealistic.

I really want to make Charlton a stable side in the Premier League but I'd be lying if I said England wasn't in the back of my mind.

I realise I have to adapt my game a bit at international level; that the combativeness in the Premier League is a little bit different at international level.

I'm not going to be negative and say it's fine to lose three or four on the bounce, of course not, but if it happens, we have to cope with it. I've been involved in relegated teams and they are the ones where a few defeats cripple you and you allow it to become a spiral.

At the back end of my career I'd put myself in the situations you see in changing rooms. Where there is conflict, arguments, fights, players refusing this and that, players kicking off.

When my boy has lost 4-0 on a Sunday morning, I'm the Dad in the car saying: 'OK mate, don't worry, we can do this or do that'. When I got in the car after losing a game I sat in the backseat and had to keep my mouth closed.

The facts are, the reality is, you can't really enjoy it. You win a football match and by the time you get to Saturday night, having a beer or a Chinese, you're already thinking about Monday morning, the next game.

You can't build teams with drastic changes or a drastic swing of players.

I was brought up in a slightly older style. I don't play with my collar up.

Confidence is the most key thing in football.

If someone a lot quicker than me was running past, I might have pulled his shirt.

When you're at a football club, the heart and soul of it is bigger than a win or a loss, so I'd like to think I leave the football club in a good place.

World-class midfield players get their share of goals and that's something I want to add to my game.

I now have 10 years' more experience from when I broke into the game. I can deal with disappointments easier, and all of that helps to make me a better player. It's the same in any walk of life, in any job.

On the field, I was probably coaching more, helping players and doing my coaching badges.

People talk about my age, but you could probably include me in that. I haven't got a lot of experience at international level. I am 30 and one of the oldest in the squad, but I am new to this as well and have not been to a big, big tournament. But this is an evolving England team.

And, for me, there is a passion in managing or coaching, whether it is working on a training ground or dealing with a 16-year-old who has a problem I can help him out with. I get quite a buzz from that.

You can play all the games you want as a professional footballer, but when you go into coaching it's just totally different.

When you're dealing with 25 men, all with different needs, some with egos, you need to manage that. If you can manage that group you get the best out of them.

I remember Louis van Gaal wearing a tie for every press conference. It must have left an impression because I like to look smart even if I get a bit of stick.

I don't see as much of a resilience any more. I look at my kids sometimes and it's so easy to jump from one ship to the next.

Of course there's a technical element but nine times out of 10 when you're having a bad day it will mainly be mental: the mistake you've made, the comment you've heard, the crowd's reaction to a shot over the bar - fter that the fear's coming in.

I used a psychologist when I was playing, It's one of the most powerful things: how you can have a concrete head and not let things in.

I love what I'm doing, I really do. This has been a process which has taken me seven years to accomplish. Some bad years, then spending a year with Spurs U18s last year trying to cut my teeth.

Every day can you drive yourself to improve? Every day can you drive others? In the good teams and the best players I played with that's what they had: self-drive.