Top 25 Kyle Lafferty Quotes

I’d be up three grand and I’d end up losing the lot. It didn’t affect me because I knew I was about to get a move and the signing-on fee would make up for the money I lost.

Playing in Norway allowed me to get back out onto the pitch and get game time, it was great to be playing regularly again.

Glasgow is a strange place. If you don’t have someone close to you looking out for you, your head will wander.

Scotland – and Glasgow – is a tough place to play football and a lot of big names have come up here and not produced.

It should be a special moment and young kids are brought up to give their right arm to play for their country. I wasn’t fully focussed at the start.

I’m always going to be a Rangers fans and I’ll always look out for their results. But if I thought the fans would have me back, then I’d always have that door open.

But for my first Rangers game it was an amazing game. I was sitting there, the stands, singing the songs. The whole atmosphere, the whole stadium red, white and blue and just this wee section was Zenit fans. I got goosebumps and everything.

It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.

I’m no different from anyone else but I don’t trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.

I’m not looking for sympathy. If there’s other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, didn’t have a lot of money and getting over to Glasgow to watch a game was probably a lot to expect from my mum and dad.

I was probably given a bit too much at an early age. I got some big moves and played in big games.

I think that’s why gamblers get so bad, being online. It makes it so easy. I don’t have any online accounts, I never have.

I won’t pay a guy money that I don’t think he deserves.

I’ve got a nice, big house. I’ve got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I’m test-driving a Porsche.

But I think I’m always going to be remembered for being the daft guy who had a chance at Rangers and never took it.

I have travelled and I have played for some amazing clubs along the way. In Italy and at Sion, I enjoyed my time.

Betting on football had been banned and, if anything, things got worse. I’d bet on horses instead. I knew absolutely nothing about horses.

I’ve always given 110% for Northern Ireland, for my country. I’ll never throw in the towel.

When a team like Rangers is interested in you, it’s something you have to look at and you know you’re doing something right.

You have to have something about you to perform in Scotland. I’m sure these foreign players are excellent but we don’t know how they’re going to perform.

I think everyone knows that when you find someone you love, you want to make them proud.

It’s always been an ambition of mine to play in the Premier League and I feel, if I moved to Wolves then I’d have an excellent chance of reaching what many believe is the greatest league in the world.

I’ve no problem with Neil Lennon. I’m thrilled for him to be interested in me. He tried to sign me for Bolton but football is football.

I was in and about the Northern Ireland team, I was a young boy, an up and coming star in the team!