Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

I love a good paella, so I'd love to be able to know how to cook one.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

If you're not playing with any confidence, then you're not going to play well at all. You've always got to have that inner confidence, and that comes with the goals.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

Obviously, when you're doing fitness work at a club all week and every week, it's all about specific drills for what you need to do on the pitch. So I'd be doing a different drill to the centre-midfielders. It's all specifically tailored for me. For example, my drills are high speed. It's all about trying to break the line with a sharp sprint.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my kids type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's horrible.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

When I lived in Hungerford, it was wake up 5:30 A.M., get to the van at 6 A.M. with eight other blokes, drive to Shinfield, which is in Reading, 45 minutes away. Start at 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. with two half-hour breaks and then home. Train Tuesday and Thursday and then play on Saturday.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

My diet is not unorthodox. I just eat like anyone else - that's just how I am. Everyone is different. It is just my metabolism that keeps me this slim.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn't stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

For Secret Santa a few years ago, I bought one of the lads I used to play with a block of cheese.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

Every time I have stepped up a level, I wasn't expecting it to happen, but once it did, I just made sure I worked as hard as I possibly could to stay there.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

When you are moulding 30 an hour, it takes its toll on your body. It got to the point where my back was just hanging off. It was time to say, 'I can't do this any more'.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

If you go into a tournament thinking that you're not going to do anything, you might as well not be there because you won't achieve anything.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

I don't really leave the house. Literally, I train, come home, look after the kids, the dogs, my missus... then it's time to go to bed.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager's plans.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

My life has changed, but I'm not money-motivated at all; that's the last thing on my mind. I just want to play football, and that's how I've always been.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

People keep asking me if I'm watching our rivals' games in the Premier League, but I'm usually on my PlayStation. If I had been watching, it would have been on an illegal stream, so I don't even know why they are asking me.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

Moving to Fleetwood was a shock to the system at first. I'd never been at a full-time club.

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy

The best present I've ever given someone is myself. I've given it to everyone.