I had a year out playing local football before I went to Charlton at 12. West Ham was the club I supported… — Jonjo Shelvey Club Copy Share Image
I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge. — Jonjo Shelvey Edge Copy Share Image
When you're playing once and then not playing for six games, I don't care what any footballer says, you don't feel involved.… — Jonjo Shelvey Care Copy Share Image
No one's going to remember you after football. No one cares about you after football. — Jonjo Shelvey About Copy Share Image
My dad brought me up to respect people but if you have your opinion and feel you're in the right, not to… — Jonjo Shelvey Dad Copy Share Image
I'd gone very quickly from playing in a park with my mates to sitting next to Wayne Rooney at dinner. It was… — Jonjo Shelvey Dinner Copy Share Image
If I stay mentally right during a game, then I feel like I can be up there with the best. — Jonjo Shelvey Best Copy Share Image
I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers. — Jonjo Shelvey Competitive Copy Share Image
If I'm not playing well, or I'm trying things and they're not coming off, the one thing I will always do is… — Jonjo Shelvey Hard Copy Share Image
I couldn't care less what people have got to say as long as I have the backing from the people that matter… — Jonjo Shelvey Family Copy Share Image
I remember walking through Romford with my sister and I had my bald head and people would stare. My sister would get… — Jonjo Shelvey Bald Copy Share Image
When I was eight or nine, we had a goal in the back yard of our council flat. We used to flip… — Jonjo Shelvey Back Copy Share Image
The way I see it is, the better you play, the more money you're going to earn. It's like working in a… — Jonjo Shelvey Car Copy Share Image
I welcome the responsibility of being a key player. I want to put on a show every week. I want to be… — Jonjo Shelvey Being Copy Share Image
I have tactics that calm me down and mellow me out so I go in to the game calm and ready instead… — Jonjo Shelvey Calm Copy Share Image
When you die, I think you re-live your life in a different dimension, in a different world but I don't believe in… — Jonjo Shelvey Aliens Copy Share Image
I understand football's changing and I'm evolving with it but stats are stats. You can run 15km if you like but I'm… — Jonjo Shelvey Football Copy Share Image
I was at Arsenal but I didn't like the manager of the under-10s at the time so I went to West Ham… — Jonjo Shelvey Arsenal Copy Share Image
I have always been confident in my ability on the ball and I don't think anyone should ever doubt me in terms… — Jonjo Shelvey Ability Copy Share Image
I get labelled lazy maybe because of my body language; I'm quite laid-back. — Jonjo Shelvey Body Copy Share Image
It's a business and it's a short career. You need to get in, earn as much money as possible. Get out. — Jonjo Shelvey Business Copy Share Image
I hate getting the ball and passing it sideways or backwards. I hate it. — Jonjo Shelvey Backwards Copy Share Image
I'd have liked to have played in the Gascoigne era, but there is so much sport science around, you have to change… — Jonjo Shelvey Around Copy Share Image
Every decision I've made in my career was just to play, to try and get as much game-time as possible. I can't… — Jonjo Shelvey Career Copy Share Image
I wasn't happy playing one or two games then coming out of the team. I wanted to carry on playing week in,… — Jonjo Shelvey Coming Copy Share Image
People can say what they want. But I'm the one who goes out there and trains every day as hard as I… — Jonjo Shelvey Day Copy Share Image
I've got alopecia so I've got bald patches all over my head and I grew up with that, so obviously I've become… — Jonjo Shelvey Bald Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, in Harold Hill, it was rough and it still is now. I used to live in a little… — Jonjo Shelvey Hill Copy Share Image
I've always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year… — Jonjo Shelvey Arsenal Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter who you play against in midfield, you need to try to come out on top and more often than… — Jonjo Shelvey Battle Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, by the time I finish I will have had a fantastic career. But you do sit there sometimes… — Jonjo Shelvey Career Copy Share Image
I loved the Swansea fans but towards the end there were things being written about me and a lot of rumours when… — Jonjo Shelvey Behind Copy Share Image
With so many training sessions you forget what you have done when you look back at the end of the week so… — Jonjo Shelvey Books Copy Share Image
If there's a problem and you want to do something after then we'll go and talk about it after, but for me… — Jonjo Shelvey End Copy Share Image
I think I always stressed myself out as a kid, and alopecia can be caused by stress. — Jonjo Shelvey Always Copy Share Image
It was unusual to see a bald nine-year-old so I would play football in hats. — Jonjo Shelvey Bald Copy Share Image
People I played with at Swansea will tell you that I wasn't laid-back when I was there. I just wanted to win… — Jonjo Shelvey End Copy Share Image
