Frank Lampard

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball. ”

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can. ”

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character. ”

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different. ”

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people. ”

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused. ”

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. ”

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through. ”

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves. ”

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction. ”