Explore Quotes by Gary Lineker

Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

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

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

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.

We do not want to alienate supporters.

Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.

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.

This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.

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

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.

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.

Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.

It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.