Quotes by Sol Campbell

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

I have the tools to climb the mountain so I don't mind climbing mountains. I have climbed mountains since I was growing up in east London in Plaistow. I'm not scared of climbing mountains. When you get to the top, the view's great. That's what it's all about.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.