Villa Quotes 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

— Paul Merson

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

— 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…

— Paul Merson

If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

— Paul Merson

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

— 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.

— 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…

— Paul Merson

Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

— Paul Merson

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

— Paul Merson

If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.

— Paul Merson

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

— 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…

— Paul Merson

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

— Paul Merson

I went to AA, which was a major help for me.

— 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…

— Paul Merson