Mark Noble Quotes

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Mark Noble

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 8, 1987

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.

Mark Noble

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.

Mark Noble

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

Mark Noble

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

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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.

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

Mark Noble

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.'

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You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'

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

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I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

Mark Noble

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!

Mark Noble

I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.

Mark Noble

I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.

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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.'

Mark Noble

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.

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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.

Mark Noble

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.

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

Mark Noble

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

Mark Noble

I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.

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