71 Quotes by Mark Noble

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.

It's a fear of failure which drives me on.