When you rotate, you have to get the balance right. When you rotate and you win, it's great but when you rotate and you don't win, that's when the problems start. — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
I used to think I was a bad person, I'd drink and gamble a lot and I didn't want to but I kept on doing it and ending back at the same place. It made me think 'this can't be… — 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