Michael Owen Quotes & Sayings

“You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.”

“There's nothing quite like a World Cup.”

“There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.”

“You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.”

“An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.”

“I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.”

“If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.”

“I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.”

“I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.”

“I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.”