You only get one chance of an England debut.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.

If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.