Jermaine Jenas

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

— 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,…

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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…

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

Tottenham's number one derby will always be Arsenal.

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— 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…

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— 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…

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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…

— Jermaine Jenas

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

— Jermaine Jenas

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