110 Quotes by Sol Campbell

I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you're 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.

Most of my players have come through academies with clubs. That's not a bad thing, but it's very different to what I grew up with.

I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.

With the Tube, it just needs more investment. Maybe lengthening some of the platforms to get more carriages in, things like that. It just needs more investment put into it.

But sport is about character. It is about understanding how a team works, about pushing the team. I also wanted to do it because of where I am from as a human being. That's what London people want: thinking outside the box, new ideas.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.