I think Brendan Rodgers as a coach and a manager is absolutely superb. — 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
All strikers go through periods when you score goals and don't score goals. — 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
You don't get everything your own way when you are a professional footballer, and neither should you expect to. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
Michael Jordan is one of my favourite athletes ever so I've got a lot of his trainers. — 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… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me knows how much the FA Cup means to me and how much I enjoy playing in it. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I do feel I have to score a lot of goals to be selected for England but I wouldn't have it any… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Kane and he's one of those strikers where every time they get the ball around the box… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I've had to adapt from playing every week to having to fight for my place, but I don't mind that if I… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
When I was a kid coming through I just wanted to score 100 Premier League goals. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I really like him, Max Aarons. I really, really like him. I watched him a lot in the Championship, and he's taken… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
At Villa you couldn't have conversations with Paul Lambert, a lot of the other guys felt the same. You'd go into his… — 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
After I scored my first goal for England, against Switzerland, when I turned up for the next game, against Denmark, that was… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I had two hard seasons at Tottenham, and when it's going badly, when you're not getting games, when people are criticising 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
He's been absolutely brilliant, he's carried Aston Villa, I'm sure if it wasn't for him, Aston Villa would have been relegated ages… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I want to get in the 100 club for scoring goals in the Premier League - I think about that a lot… — 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
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
When Luka joined Spurs, the first thing you noticed was his technique. I had played against him for England but when you… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I know Martin Jol. I've worked with him before, he signed me at Tottenham and I respect him hugely. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
When I was at Charlton, I could have gone to West Ham for double. But I chose to go to Tottenham for… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I never thought in a million years I'd be playing football against a rockstar. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I went to Villa to be with top players, Ashley Young and Stewart Downing, who create chances. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I got myself back out there at Brighton, then Derby came in and it was the right move. — 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
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
Once I left Spurs, I tried to show people that I'm a good footballer who can score goals. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
You work so hard when you are young just to get to be a footballer, so when you make it you shouldn't… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I went to Tottenham 'cos I wanted to push myself and to improve, and I'm doing that. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I've played for my country and now I've scored for my country and nobody can take those things away from me. — 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
