37 Quotes by Jonjo Shelvey

I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers.

I welcome the responsibility of being a key player. I want to put on a show every week. I want to be a leader.

I have tactics that calm me down and mellow me out so I go in to the game calm and ready instead of punching the walls.

With so many training sessions you forget what you have done when you look back at the end of the week so you have the little book and write the date down and there you go.

I couldn't care less what people have got to say as long as I have the backing from the people that matter - the gaffer, family, and my team-mates - and they know what I am like as a person on and off the pitch. That's all that matters.

I'm a winner and I've had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.

People I played with at Swansea will tell you that I wasn't laid-back when I was there. I just wanted to win so much on the training pitch that I'd end up falling out with people.

I've got alopecia so I've got bald patches all over my head and I grew up with that, so obviously I've become accustomed to it, but it's still not nice when people are saying it in your industry when they know you've got a condition.

If there's a problem and you want to do something after then we'll go and talk about it after, but for me you shake hands at the end of the game and get on with it.