#ow

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#available #back #been #contributed #end

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#comments #give #headline #i #joined

I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a victory or do certain things to hang on to leads or get back in games. They're a lot more streetwise than us. I think as a nation we are very honest, we try to win the right way. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#certain #certain things #england #games #get

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#certain things #fast #game #i #lost

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#football #four #i #involved #know

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. ↗

— Yanni

#anyone #correctly #fingers #go #happy

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#case #certain #certain way #confident #doubting

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#beast #difference #down #feel #football

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#back #catch #chance #closing #develop

You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#business #each #either #fly #football