Footballer

The core of who I am and what I'm about, I'm a loyal person, I'm honourable, as I say I'm a softie I'll do anything for anyone. But, there's this other part of me that, I've been exposed to so much at a young age that's now, right, I have to look after myself.

When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.

I am a man and if I have an opinion, I will say it.

Whoever you are, it is nice to treat your parents to stuff.

I'm just a regular person. I treat every person the same. I like to think that I'm respectful. I'm honest with everybody. Sometimes it gets me in trouble, sometimes it doesn't, but I'll always speak my mind.

I work harder than 90% of people.

Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.

If I don't like you, I will tell you, that's it.

I don't mind women's football. I am of the business understanding though, when people say 'it should be equal pay.' If the business makes sense, it does.

At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.

Things happen in football and you have to be man enough that things come and go.

I would go on record saying that there is probably one gay or bi-person in every football team. They're there, they are 100 per cent there. I think people that are gay or from that community definitely are very worried about having to shoulder the responsibility of being the first. I think once the first comes out, there would be loads.

When you are not having the best of moments in front of goal, just smash it down the middle.

It would have been great to play for England but it is not something I have lost sleep over.

I'm genuinely a big softie, I put this front on, and I'm just a laid-back fool really.

If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.

Part of my job leading the line for Watford is to occupy centre-halves - by that I mean those battles with Huth, say, to try to win headers when the ball is played forward. But I also look to bring centre-halves out of position to the flanks and make space for my team-mates in the middle.

The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.

There were bigger and better players before me and there will be bigger and better after.

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.