Michael Owen Quotes

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

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

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

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 don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

Bayern Munich are probably the standout team on the planet.

I have always been confident that I would make it to the top.

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.

Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.

I was born to score goals, I feel.

It was a real eye opener and I'm really pleased that I spent a year out there [in Real Madrid].

The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don't have feelings straight away

I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.

Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. (on breaking his leg)

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.

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

Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

Henry had taken striking on to a different level

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

All Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now.

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.

Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

Everton have a healthy list of injuries.

It bothers me when I don't score.

I don't particularly enjoy watching international football in the way that I used to. It hurts me to say that, but it's true.