100 Quotes by Troy Deeney

If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.

None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.

My dad was not a footballer. He wasn't anything remotely what the average person would say was a role model - but in my eyes he was Superman.

Back in the day you used to have a fight. You win, you lose, you get up and go home, dust yourself down. Social media made it so that if you lose a fight it is on camera, you are embarrassed and you are forced to react.

I'm just a normal kid, really, from an inner-city background.

Huth is the sort of centre-half who will let you know he is there, so to speak, with a challenge or two early in the game.

I don't mind women's football. I am of the business understanding though, when people say 'it should be equal pay.' If the business makes sense, it does.

You can't be an athlete and doubt yourself.

Part of my job leading the line for Watford is to occupy centre-halves - by that I mean those battles with Huth, say, to try to win headers when the ball is played forward. But I also look to bring centre-halves out of position to the flanks and make space for my team-mates in the middle.