141 Quotes by Alan Shearer

I wanted to go the full distance, yes, but if I have to finish, then it's not a bad way to finish, coming to your local enemies and scoring a goal that's helped us get a 4-1 win.

After being knocked out of the Champions League, which was a huge disappointment, the players sat down, had a meeting and said that the only way to get over that defeat was to win the UEFA Cup. That situation hasn't changed.

As far as I am concerned, nothing has changed. I will retire at the end of the season.

A manager should be judged on results and he has guided us to the World Cup finals as he said he would do.

There's been a lot of changes, you have to ask others why. Ideally, you'd want a manager for years and years. But whoever comes in inherits a great club, which has always had financial backing from the board and fantastic supporters. That's never been a problem.

It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.

It's a huge game for us. Defeat is not worth thinking about.

It's three points but it's more than that because it's against Sunderland. But we have got to get some consistency into our game.

It's a very good win, there was a lot of pressure on us for obvious reasons. We proved tonight we mean business. We want to go all the way and win it.