The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they’re going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct. – Vinnie Jones
I’m lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I’m not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that. – Vinnie Jones
Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school. – Vinnie Jones
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies. – Vinnie Jones
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to. – Vinnie Jones
People say, ‘I love ‘Snatch,’ I love ‘Lock Stock,’ but I want to be more than a movie name. I’d love to be more of a household name. – Vinnie Jones
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it’s quite devastating. One minute you’re all happy families, then everything changes. – Vinnie Jones
My mum calls my temper ‘Devilman.’ They say you calm down with age, but I don’t know. It never goes away. – Vinnie Jones
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we’d stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays – being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings. – Vinnie Jones
I’ve got the FA Cup tattooed on my leg and the Leeds United emblem, too. On my back, I’ve got, ‘It’s been emotional,’ which is my line from ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.’ I’m fond of my tattoos, and I’m still having more. – Vinnie Jones
Over the years, I’ve had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don’t think I look intimidating, but I’m sure other people have their opinions. – Vinnie Jones
When two people break up, it’s all about them; they can’t see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you’re getting torn – your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well. – Vinnie Jones
I’ve always felt that people put me down, and I’d fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do. – Vinnie Jones
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing – it’s fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I’m also happy to be on my own with nature. – Vinnie Jones
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. – Vinnie Jones
I’m a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven’t lived in council estates; they’ve just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. – Vinnie Jones
Americans don’t care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive. – Vinnie Jones
There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King’s Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am. – Vinnie Jones