Mark Noble Quotes

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Mark Noble

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 8, 1987

I've just always got on with people older than me for some reason.

Mark Noble

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.

Mark Noble

I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive me there after work. Sometimes we were in traffic for two hours. They wanted to keep me but I wasn't getting home until nearly 11 P. M. I loved it there but it wasn't right, so I came to West Ham and haven't looked back.

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When I was a youngster, my dream was to play in the first team. I was constantly thinking, 'Will I make a career in football? Am I going to have to go out and get a job?'

Mark Noble

We're not robots, we're not factory built. We have feelings, we have families and we go through tough times that people don't know about. Sometimes your form isn't good and there's a reason for that. Sometimes the team isn't playing well and you can't quite work out why.

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I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

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I feel a lot older than I am.

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Football is a game of moments now and if someone does four step-overs, they've had an incredible game. That's not something I do.

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When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.

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I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

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I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.

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It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.

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You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.

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My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.

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I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

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Refs won't get everything right but those decisions really hurt teams.

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I'm English, I've always wanted to play for England but it's out of my hands.

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I don't think I'm a bad egg.

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I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

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To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

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