Gary Lineker

I'm in good shape.

— Gary Lineker

World Cups can be career-defining.

— Gary Lineker

Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

— Gary Lineker

I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

— Gary Lineker

People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

— Gary Lineker

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

— Gary Lineker

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

— Gary Lineker

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

— Gary Lineker

...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

— Gary Lineker

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

— Gary Lineker

We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

— Gary Lineker

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

— Gary Lineker

The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept…

— Gary Lineker

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

— Gary Lineker

The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

— Gary Lineker

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

— Gary Lineker

Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the…

— Gary Lineker

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well.…

— Gary Lineker

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I…

— Gary Lineker

Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup…

— Gary Lineker

I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured…

— Gary Lineker

We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there…

— Gary Lineker

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not…

— Gary Lineker

When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely…

— Gary Lineker

That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then…

— Gary Lineker

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those…

— Gary Lineker

It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts…

— Gary Lineker

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…

— Gary Lineker

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They…

— Gary Lineker

The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's…

— Gary Lineker

You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got…

— Gary Lineker

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go…

— Gary Lineker

I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried…

— Gary Lineker

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

— Gary Lineker

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

— Gary Lineker

We do not want to alienate supporters.

— Gary Lineker

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

— Gary Lineker

Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.

— Gary Lineker

Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

— Gary Lineker

I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.

— Gary Lineker