Every time you play for your country it is like you are on trial to be honest. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
It would be great to play against someone like Spain and prove you can handle yourself at that level. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
If you don't play for your club regularly, you won't play for England. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I don't know any player with ambition who wants to sit there, week in week out, and not play. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
Aston Villa is a massive club and I always want to play for huge clubs. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I play a lot differently. Wayne drops a lot deeper, and Peter Crouch is much more of a target man. I attack… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
You always want to play for your country and when you're in good form, you feel that maybe you will be in… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I had to leave Tottenham because I needed to play games but part of me wishes I had stayed a bit longer,… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
Potentially Kane could be the best but if you're looking at the full package, holding the ball up, bringing others into play,… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I have always said to myself, if you play well and do your best for Sunderland, then there is a chance you… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
It was really difficult at Villa because we weren't allowed to play in any matches, a few of us were kind of… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
You think about all the positions Rooney got asked to play. He played everywhere. You forget how good he was. So to… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I've always said to young people who ask me about playing in the Premier League that, whatever your ambitions in life, you… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
It's just nice to know that a manager believes in you and that you are going to play for him and you… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
Firmino, we know he doesn't score that many goals, but he's the glue, he links it all together. His hold-up play is… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I've played for England and at one stage I was the first-choice centre forward because I played in four or five qualifiers in a… — Darren Bent Copy Share
I've had to adapt from playing every week to having to fight for my place, but I don't mind that if I become a… — Darren Bent Copy Share
When you meet up with England, you can feel tense and think to yourself: 'Where's that goal going to come from?' — Darren Bent Copy Share
A footballer's life can be a bit lonely at times but you have to keep going. — Darren Bent Copy Share
I can't sulk and not pull my weight - then I could be even further away from the first team than I want to… — Darren Bent Copy Share
My dads a big Chelsea man, so I used to go and watch them a lot too, because he would take me, but it… — Darren Bent Copy Share
You don't get everything your own way when you are a professional footballer, and neither should you expect to. — Darren Bent Copy Share
When I left London and my parents split up it crushed me, to be honest. It was really, really hard for me. I remember… — Darren Bent Copy Share
