Gary Lineker

Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football. ”

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

World Cups can be career-defining. ”

When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped. ”

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free. ”

I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things. ”

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else. ”

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire. ”

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition. ”

I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it. ”