Top 30 Steph McGovern Quotes

I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn’t exist.

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says ‘less’ when they should have said ‘fewer.’ But my ‘poor’ sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my ‘grass’ rhymes with mass, not farce. What’s wrong with that?

Young people have so many great ideas so I can’t wait to hear what children from around the country have come up with. ‘Pocket Money Pitch’ will encourage them to believe in themselves and ‘have a go.’

I am not with child – I am with pot belly.

I’m proud to be from the North-East.

Despite being a business journalist at the BBC for ten years, working behind the scenes on our high-profile news programmes, I was viewed by some in the organisation to be ‘too common for telly.’

I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so ordinary. But in the places I’ve worked, one or more of these things would put me in the minority.

I am not frugal – I’m quite a big spender – but not on credit.

I meet so many business women who shy away from the limelight or hesitate to put themselves forward for promotion, despite the fact they are brilliant at their jobs.

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour’s drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I’d then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

If it’s a healthy day, I’ll head to the gym, then have a steak salad at the cafe next door.

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

I was a journalist’s dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering.

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It’s dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn’t do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

I have had people come up to me in the street – one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can’t believe I’m on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, ‘this person doesn’t know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.’

You can either sing or you can’t. And I’m one of the can’ts.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

When I come to schools like Norton Primary Academy and meet children who have their lives and careers before them, I hope in some small way that I can inspire them to do better by sharing my own story with them and telling them never to give up on their dreams.

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn’t get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent – it is the key to my identity.

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really – I like enterprise and making money.

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn’t mean they were better than us.

Some of our best-known entrepreneurs started their business ventures when they were kids.

You’ll never see me on anything like ‘MasterChef.’ I’m just not interested.

With the ‘Watchdog Army’ we’re putting viewers at the heart of the programme.

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn’t from Middlesbrough I wouldn’t have done as well as I have.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

Given how dangerous it is for someone to consume something they are allergic to, you would think that companies would just make sure they print labels which have the allergy information on.

Kids have some of the best ideas – bringing new eyes to old problems.