It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers! — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year:… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought'… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
