You have to get your goalscorers on the pitch when you have to win. — Paul Merson Football Copy Share Image
Being an addict is hard. It's something you have got for the rest of your life. — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them. — Paul Merson Birmingham Copy Share Image
This is hard to say but I think Jurgen Klopp has been a bit blinkered at Liverpool. — Paul Merson Football Copy Share Image
Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa. — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’. — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree — Paul Merson Championship Copy Share Image
Never worry about what people think. That's what drove me to drinking a lot of time, worrying about what people thought of… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you're earning… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
I placed some silly wagers, sixty grand here, eighty grand there. I'd ring up a bookie and bet £10,000 on something like… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
If you aren't going to have a lot of the ball, you've got to play when you've got the ball, otherwise you… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the… — Paul Merson Illness Copy Share Image
I played in an FA Cup final for Aston Villa and the manager went negative, sitting everyone behind the ball against Chelsea. — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
But I was just a normal person really. You see, I didn't get it in my head that I was just a… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
But that's why the fans liked me so much. 'Cos I am one of them. If they were in one pub down… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
There are not many players about who can go up front and be a target man, be strong, put his body in… — Paul Merson Body Copy Share Image
There is one thing that will never change in football. The centre forward is only as good as the people that are… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
I've lost millions. The money's not the problem it's the sanity. You go insane. As soon as the bets on you are… — Paul Merson Hate Copy Share Image
“Glenn could see I was bricking it and turned round to me as I sat there, gripping the armrests. "You all right?"… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
We grew up in an age of playing reserve team football at the stadium. If the first team were playing away, you'd… — Paul Merson Age Copy Share Image
“I crawled back to bed, knowing I was done for. Hours later, the phone in our room started ringing. It was George.… — Paul Merson Board games Copy Share Image
Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas' — Paul Merson Christmas Copy Share Image
If I can help one person by sharing my story then in my eyes it's a success. — Paul Merson Eyes Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe Wolves let Matt Doherty go. For the price Wolves let him go for, I didn't get that one at… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
