Jermaine Jenas

I'm not a robot: sometimes I wake up and I want to train, but I don't manage it.

— Jermaine Jenas

Tottenham's number one derby will always be Arsenal.

— Jermaine Jenas

To go to Milan and play against the European champions at the San Siro is phenomenal.

— Jermaine Jenas

I've never looked at my job as pressure. It's always been fun, a privilege.

— Jermaine Jenas

As a young player all you want to do is develop.

— Jermaine Jenas

As a player or as a manager, you want to go to the biggest and best club.

— Jermaine Jenas

I wasn't the kind of player to make a fuss.

— Jermaine Jenas

Harry Winks is a very different kind of player to those we usually develop in England. He is more fluid in his…

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We are obsessed in England with the idea that we're not good enough at retaining the ball, and that our players treat…

— Jermaine Jenas

I had a couple of moments struggling with imposter syndrome throughout my career as a player.

— Jermaine Jenas

It's not that players feel no emotional bond to a team. When you've given so much of your career to a club,…

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As it is, I played 99 per cent of my football in the Premier League and I'd proud of that fact. That's…

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Aleksandar Kolarov has technical ability, but I'm not sure he has what it takes defensively.

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A lot of the time at Spurs, I was fitting in around other people, letting the likes of Luka Modric go and…

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When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I…

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My career has been like that - when I went to Newcastle, Kieron Dyer and Gary Speed were ahead of me and…

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I can remember visiting one school in Nottingham - where there were about 10 pupils on the brink of exclusion. They had…

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I had been played at left back, right back, and I just felt like I wasn't developing as a player. I saw…

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When you're out there together on the pitch, you're fighting for each other. It's amazing, overwhelming and you either sink or swim…

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Around the time Andre Villas-Boas became manager I went to a summer training camp in America. But when I got back, to…

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I'm only 24, which is still young, but I don't think of myself as one of the young lads anymore. I suppose…

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A lot of the best managers in the game were forced into it by financial necessity. From Sir Alex Ferguson to Jurgen…

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I've got to admit when I did my first ever Match Of The Day, I didn't realise how nervous I'd be. There's…

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There have always been ­gangland-type areas in Nottingham - but what's really hit me hard is kids as young as eight are…

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I remember when I left Newcastle to join Tottenham Hotspur, the money was in no way a motivation for me, it was…

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I wanted to play for England at a World Cup and to grace the pitch for even two minutes at such a…

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Of course, stuff happens off the ball in any football match. Standing on people's toes, pinching, hair pulling, punching in the back.

— Jermaine Jenas

I've never been a selfish player. I've never been able to just say I am going as well. I've always thought about…

— Jermaine Jenas

I used to find most joy with those long, bursting runs from your own box where the opposition's central midfield player has…

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When I talk to my mates, they all have their opinion and though I'm a professional who's played the game and lived…

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I'm not saying coaching has never crossed my mind. But it's worth pointing out that if I decided tomorrow that I wanted…

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No player has a right to be in the team, but the minimum you expect is basic respect.

— Jermaine Jenas

I never wanted to be a pundit who chases headlines.

— Jermaine Jenas

In life it is easier to criticise people than be out there doing it yourself.

— Jermaine Jenas

My dad's a football coach, that's what he does.

— Jermaine Jenas

I can bring my drive, I can get behind centre-halves, get on the other side of midfield players, score goals. That's what…

— Jermaine Jenas

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

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I was quite fortunate as a player. I was always the one who needed to eat more. My body fat was three…

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There is no doubt that not having Harry Kane and Son Heung-min will have an impact on your team.

— Jermaine Jenas

In my opinion, the root cause of all Arsenal's problems is that Arsene Wenger is just too nice. He's too nice, too…

— Jermaine Jenas