92 Quotes by Paul Gascoigne

I don’t really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it’s safe, and the guys don’t go to the papers and tell them what I’ve done.

All I want to shout is ‘Moaty, it’s Gazza!‘, and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, ‘Why don’t you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I’ve got loads of love to give.

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don’t mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that’s no good for our youngsters coming through.

But if I wasn’t playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

I’m going to do things when they are right for me.

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game – if selected.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you’ve got to. But I try not say that I’m an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it’s a disease I’ve got.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don’t know when.