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I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

- Jonjo Shelvey
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Every decision I've made in my career was just to play, to try and get as much game-time as possible. I can't say I've got too many regrets.

I've always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year out because I wanted to play with my mates and get that competitiveness back. I got that fighting spirit and I never want to lose that.

Where I grew up, in Harold Hill, it was rough and it still is now. I used to live in a little council flat, next to the shops, and there was always trouble, people getting stabbed.

I was at Arsenal but I didn't like the manager of the under-10s at the time so I went to West Ham where my brother played.

When I was eight or nine, we had a goal in the back yard of our council flat. We used to flip it over the back fence and take it out onto the estate. Everyone would come out and we'd play for hours, there were cars screeching to a halt when the ball went on the road.

No one's going to remember you after football. No one cares about you after football.

I'd have liked to have played in the Gascoigne era, but there is so much sport science around, you have to change with it.

People I played with at Swansea will tell you that I wasn't laid-back when I was there. I just wanted to win so much on the training pitch that I'd end up falling out with people.

People can say what they want. But I'm the one who goes out there and trains every day as hard as I can.

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I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.