Top 20 Vinnie Jones Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I was offered ‘I’m A Celebrity…’ for a lot of money, but I don’t like the level of degradation.

People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can’t.

Film is like football – you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don’t get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

In ‘Hell Ride,’ I play a biker – it’s about the bikers. It’s with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We’re bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I’ve got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

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.

I’d like to be the romantic lead one day, but I’ve got to grow my hair first.

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.

After ‘Big Brother,’ people came up to me in the street shouting, ‘You woz robbed!’

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.

I always want to try new things, and ‘Mean Machine’ has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles – you’ll see that there’s more strings to my bow!

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.

There’s good action stars. I’m a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that’s not being true to your fans.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it’s quite devastating. One minute you’re all happy families, then everything changes.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It’s not the country I grew up in.

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.

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.

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.