Gary Lineker

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children. ”

The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution. ”

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere. ”

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people. ”

Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players. ”

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time. ”

You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll. ”

I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.' ”

In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age. ”

I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago. ”