--- title: "1 Lovely day Quotes By Paul Merson" description: "1 Lovely day quotes by Paul Merson. Plus more from Paul Merson and more Lovely day sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/paul-merson-9263_board-games_i-crawled-back-to-bed-knowing-i-was-done_2409183.jpg" --- > [“I crawled back to bed, knowing I was done for. Hours later, the phone in our room started ringing. It was George. He was not happy. "Room 312. Now!" he shouted. Bouldy got up. I tried to pull myself together,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/i-crawled-back-to-bed-knowing-i-was-done-for-hours-later-the-phone-in/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/paul-merson-9263_board-games_i-crawled-back-to-bed-knowing-i-was-done_2409183.jpg) ## More by Paul Merson > [Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/don-t-put-too-much-pressure-on-jack-wilshere-in-years-to-come-i-think/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/when-everton-knock-it-long-they-don-t-knock-it-long/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [ The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We \[Arsenal\] played against Milan in the European Supercup \[in 1995\]. Maldini marked me… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/the-best-player-i-ever-played-against-was-paolo-maldini-we-arsenal/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/if-you-keep-walking-past-the-barbers-eventually-you-ll-get-a-haircut/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/you-don-t-want-to-bite-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Never worry about what people think. That's what drove me to drinking a lot of time, worrying about what people thought of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/never-worry-about-what-people-think-that-s-what-drove-me-to-drinking/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you're earning twenty-five pounds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/when-you-see-your-friends-going-out-every-friday-night-and-earning/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/football-s-all-about-yesterday-it-s-all-about-now/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/david-nugent-tore-up-the-championship-but-he-s-gone-to-portsmouth-and/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/if-you-re-chopping-and-changing-the-team-you-don-t-get-that-word-i/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/every-single-player-on-the-pitch-is-now-in-the-birmingham-box-apart/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [But I was just a normal person really. You see, I didn't get it in my head that I was just a professional footballer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/but-i-was-just-a-normal-person-really-you-see-i-didn-t-get-it-in-my/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Reading won't have the confidence to be confident](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/reading-won-t-have-the-confidence-to-be-confident/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [I went to AA, which was a major help for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/i-went-to-aa-which-was-a-major-help-for-me/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [We grew up in an age of playing reserve team football at the stadium. If the first team were playing away, you'd be playing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/we-grew-up-in-an-age-of-playing-reserve-team-football-at-the-stadium/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lovely-day/paul-merson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Lovely day Quotes By Paul Merson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I crawled back to bed, knowing I was done for. Hours later, the phone in our room started ringing. It was George. He was not happy. \"Room 312. Now!\" he shouted. Bouldy got up. I tried to pull myself together, splashing my face with water and hauling on my shorts and flip flops. 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