Top 69 Leicester Quotes & Sayings

Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.

I have to thank Leicester City Football Club. The adventure was amazing and will live with me forever.

When I arrived at Chelsea, I was at Leicester and I had just won my first title with a club.

The love the people of Leicester showed towards me was incredible. Even more than winning the Premier League.

I have been at Leicester since I was 12 and to play for England at the King Power is obviously going to be my dream.

I visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. It’s the most fun I’ve had since i was seven. And I thought: it’s not about drink, or drugs, or fancy clubs. It’s about running around in your socks, changing direction in a front room in Leicester.

I have won trophies around Europe, but never the title. Three times, I was runner-up. Leicester and the fans will be in my heart for all of my life.

I'm at Leicester and with Brendan Rodgers coming in we're all loving him being there and that's where my head's at.

Why can't we be Greece in the Euros? Why can't we be Leicester in the Premier League? Tell me why not.

English football's history is so rich and the size of the clubs around, the so-called big six, are so big that it is difficult to break into that for a club like Leicester.

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

I've had the four best seasons of my career at Leicester and have loved every moment. I feel immense pride to have been a part of what we have achieved during my time at the club, culminating in becoming Premier League champions.

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

Things could be done better over there at Newcastle, but Leicester have given me the opportunity to do great things hopefully.

I feel just an overwhelming sense of pride of being part of the family that Vichai built and the extended family of Leicester City.

It was amazing to have Mourinho call me, even though I'd been warned before how he would appeal to me. I listened to his arguments about why I should move to United. But at that time I was hesitant between staying at Leicester or leaving for Chelsea.

Captaining Leicester is one of the greatest honours in my career so I feel very privileged.

Ross Noble at the Leicester De Montfort Hall on his Randomist tour - it's the only time I've hurt from laughing at a standup comedian.

I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell and George Dunning, who animated and directed 'Yellow Submarine,' and they'd got their hands on the last scene, the triptychs. They just showed that part, without music and with the projectors misaligned.

Once I got to Leicester, I just wanted to prove myself.

I want to be on the pitch, whether it is for someone else or for Leicester.

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn't feel they had it at Newcastle.

I was out on loan at Barnsley when United accepted an offer for me from Leicester and that was it really. I just had to concentrate on my new club.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Signing for Leicester, they gave me a great platform to go and play for England as well.

I am crazy about Leicester; I am crazy about the owners - they are fantastic and really good for the Premier League.

I scored an own goal against Leicester and when you do that you start to think about things and question yourself.

I got to meet Princess Diana at Leicester Square, where we had a big premiere. It was one of the great experiences in my life.

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.

Leicester have been unbelievable to me, and I'm really happy there, but I'm also an ambitious player, and everyone wants to play at the top.

Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

The crazy thing about my story is that I only came to Leicester City because Leeds didn't want me. A lot of footballers say that, and it's almost a cliche. But the chairman literally told me that they didn't want me.

I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

This is Leicester: it is not like Manchester City or Manchester United. They have an obligation to win things. We don't have an obligation; it is just a dream.

If I keep playing well for Leicester, all I can do is keep trying to knock on the door.

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.

I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus.

I've got a lot of respect for Claude Puel because he brought me to Leicester and to the Premier League and played me in most of the games. I have a lot of respect on that front.

It was fantastic to win the title with Leicester.

I do believe I did see UFOs, in Leicester.

It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.

Leicester has been as good for me as I have been for them so I wouldn't want to leave the club, but if it ever comes to it then I guess I will have to.

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

I've seen phenomenal work in Leicester where people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease use telecare to measure their own oxygen levels, and if they need to change their meds they get a phonecall from a nurse who has seen the results of their readings.

This is Leicester City. They are a yo-yo club and always have been.

My English is improving because I learnt it in one year at Leicester, before it was just in school and on holiday, but I have to learn more, I don't understand it all.

I give my best for my team-mates. At Leicester it was like that and everyone was focused for the title and we did it. Here at Chelsea it's the same.

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary.

Everyone's second team in Italy is Leicester. In Thailand, the first team is Leicester. I've received letters from Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil - everywhere 'Leicester, Leicester, what a legend.'

I wanted to make a difference at Leicester and it was something I needed, to be more focused.

Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of 'Scum.' All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

My first role in catering was front-of-house, at five or six, at my parents' restaurant in Leicester. Me and my brother were dressed in tuxedos and we'd greet guests and be paraded around like show ponies.