Top 33 Mark Noble Quotes

I don’t think I’m a bad egg.

Don’t get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things that footballers have but you get to a Premier League level because you have something inside you and you can play. Ninety per cent of that is self-pride.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can’t understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, ‘Bring it in, I’ll eat it.’

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.

If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.

I love playing football. I always look at it as there’s a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

Football is a game of moments now and if someone does four step-overs, they’ve had an incredible game. That’s not something I do.

I’m really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.

I know Billy Bonds quite well and he is a fantastic person and was a fantastic player.

It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.

I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive me there after work. Sometimes we were in traffic for two hours. They wanted to keep me but I wasn’t getting home until nearly 11 P. M. I loved it there but it wasn’t right, so I came to West Ham and haven’t looked back.

Refs won’t get everything right but those decisions really hurt teams.

My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren’t going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.

When you’re 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence – it’s really down to really wanting to make that run.

I’ve just always got on with people older than me for some reason.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It’s fantastic, I’d love that. But you never know what’s round the corner.

You want to play in the Premier League, full stop. You don’t want to play in the Championship. I’ve played there and I don’t want to play there again for West Ham.

I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

I’m as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I’m in the team or not.

I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It’s crazy.

You can’t play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.

I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.

When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it’s 10 years at West Ham, you’re leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it’s very rare.

I’ve been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

I always give 100% in every game I play, even if it’s not enough.

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

I’ve been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It’s like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it – it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

I don’t think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we’ve lost it’s the end of the world for me but he will say: ‘I don’t think you realise – you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.’

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player’s career.

When I was a youngster, my dream was to play in the first team. I was constantly thinking, ‘Will I make a career in football? Am I going to have to go out and get a job?’