141 Quotes by Alan Shearer

People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

I am fearing the worst, unfortunately - I have been injured before plenty of times so I know the scenario and I haven't got a great hope.

Getting one result can lead to another and another, and we have now had six.