When you play Leeds, you need players who are quick and who are capable of beating opponents as they like to set… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
To work under Brendan Rodgers would certainly be a good move for Ainsley Maitland-Niles but the most important thing for the player… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
I'm an addictive person. If I open a bag of sweets, I won't just eat one or two, I'll eat the lot.… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, unbelievable centre-forwards - but you could not say to them: 'For the next three weeks I want you… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
It's alright people saying they get £100,000-a-week, they get paid well or whatever, but they want to play football. — 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
Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut. — Paul Merson 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 me. — 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 twenty-five pounds… — 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 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
Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them. — 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 professional footballer… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
