Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Sol Campbell - Page 2

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

I don't want to be the same person I was on the pitch. I was an angry man, focused, wanted to win... Generally, now, I'm a happy guy.

The only pictures you saw of me when I was playing, I was crashing into a centre forward! Or running down a line to save my team. I'm not gonna be happy, be smiling.

Every case is different, but what I want to do first and foremost at Southend is to get the players up to speed.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

With Newcastle there are 50,000 people watching and they want it to be a success, and that is what I am all about.

Young players have to realise pretty quickly that it is not about one game, but how you perform over the whole season.

I've always felt wingers, more than any type of player, can change a game.

Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.

Every time I have gotten into anything, I have wanted to do it well. I've always been like that as a young boy, every time I've wanted to go on that pitch.

I could have started playing professional at 16, 17 quite easily. For my position, I was far better than a lot of people around me. All the people in front of me had was experience but, talent-wise, I easily could get in.

I think the FA wished I was white. I had the credibility, performance-wise, to be captain. I was consistently in the heart of the defence and I was a club captain early on my career.

Sometimes I am the 'philosophical professor, or I can do the voice like thunder if necessary... or if I want to keep the lads on their toes I might sit back and give them a thousand-yard stare.

It's all right to have black captains and mixed-race in the under-18s and under-21s, but not for the full national side. There is a ceiling and although no one has ever said it, I believe it's made of glass.

I am going to fight on the pitch for Newcastle and if it comes to the stage where someone says can you fight for England then I will fight for England. But I am not going to go on about it. It is just not worth it.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

My message is simple to all the knockers: I am knuckling down and want to play my football with a great club and a great manager. Then you can judge me.

I like building teams and I want to run my own show, in the nicest possible way, to see how far I can go, starting with getting Macclesfield further up the table.

I have all sorts of country clothing because we live in Northumberland as well as London. You need good quality gear.

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

The passion is still there, you can try and walk away from football but it just keeps on coming back.

You have to truly believe in your skill and trust that you can do something.

Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.

Yes, I was a footballer, but there's more to me than meets the eye. I've got more levels. So many levels. I'm not going away - and I'm going to keep on talking until things start changing.

If you get an opportunity, you get an opportunity, but it really comes down to the people behind the scenes and the manager. You can't do anything about it.

I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.

If you win, you have to get your feet straight back on the ground and grind out another win. You can enjoy the moment, but remain level-headed and always think ahead to the next challenge.

My wife's family kept inviting me to shoot and I just didn't want to go, but since retiring from football I've had more time and I thought... let's get all the kit and practice.

We all like a party but when that 'becomes the main feature of your lifestyle as a footballer, I haven't got time for that.

I am a naturally big guy, but I cannot rush my conditioning, otherwise trying too much too quickly could result in injuries.

If people don't like you, people don't like you. It's as simple as that.

I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a firefighter.

I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.