42 Quotes by Colin Cooper

The team's been together the last couple of years and we have high expectations of ourselves.

After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

It's a huge loss, both on and off the field.

It's tough on a kid to leave the Crusaders when he was part of them winning the title,

It's only his second game at first five-eighth . . . so he's got a lot of promise. He played fullback for a while as you saw, and he can kick goals. He's a pretty special player.

It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.

It's not a nice thing. I heard he was pretty crook, I didn't actually see him but I heard he was pretty crook.

It's disappointing. It was an issue between two players and it's not a big thing.

I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.