Glenn Murray

I watched 'Match of the Day' growing up every week and I'm talking until I was 29-years-old. ”

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics. ”

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one. ”

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department. ”

If you stop learning at any time, you start to fall down the leagues. ”

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me. ”

All goals are amazing. But scoring away from home, if I am honest, is extra special. ”

I had four great years at Palace but just felt it was the right time to start a new chapter of my career. ”

It took me a little bit of time in the Premier League. I came back from an ACL and got one goal in I think six months at Crystal Palace. It wasn't great but I got to grips with the Premier League, started to understand what it's about because it's very different to the lower leagues. ”

The lowest point in my non-league career came when I was a teenage substitute for Workington Reds in a game at Blyth Spartans, and some kids started throwing eggs at me and the other subs when we were warming up. ”