YouSaid · the spoken record

Peter Crouch

lines on the record: 137
first: 2022-11-17
most recent: 2022-11-17
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“I talked about the player walking off the pitch that happened in that season. And it culminated in relegation, you know? So when you talk about lost the dressing room, I didn't say, I class myself in that scenario because I was more of an older player then. And maybe I let things go. Things go a bit as well, you know, like not my standards personally didn't drop, but I let people get away with things when I was an older player, like I should have been the Stephen Gerard in the situation. I should have been a player that flagged it up maybe. That wrangles with me. Like, I let things go. I know it wasn't my job to do that, but I was an experienced player”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've seen it at certain times. I don't think it would be fair to me to say names, but I have seen it in certain dressing rooms where a manager has lost it a little bit. We had a situation at Stoke where we had probably the best dressing room I've ever been a part of. And then we added sort of some more talented players, more than sort of hardworking, honest players, if you like. And we had, for a spell, we had a really good mix. Of that real quality and that. Kind of determination and spirit. And then it went too far the other way. It was almost too much quality and not enough effort, determination, team spirit, ethics, standards. Slipped, you know, and I've seen things that I'd never seen before.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These wise words didn't come from me personally. They were guardiana's words. And I think it was something to do with if someone asked you a question, you have an answer for them. Even if you don't know it, you'll go do your homework and come back to that question because you need to be seen as a level above the players. You need to have more clued up. You need to have more intricate details on the opposition. You need to know about football more than the players do. So they have that respect for you.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Even if you don't know, you say we're looking into that, we've worked on that, you know, that's something that we're, you know, just make the moment you say you don't know, I think there's an element of he hasn't got a clue. There's no sat down here. Yeah, basically, yeah, I think. And I think it was Guardiola who said it.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, like, so in your industry, right, if you're an employee of yours, asks you. Should we do here I don't know if it's as cutthroat as football, but. I think it's better to have an answer. To say you don't know”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's been fined, I assume, and he's been dropped for the next squad, but it looks like he's potentially Getting back in, and that is what is the best situation for the club because you don't want Ronaldo training with the kids away from the first team. You want him in and around it because he'll be an asset potentially at the end of games or to start some games.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm talking about managers. You know, players, if you're a manager and you don't have control of the dress room at times, it's hard to come back from that. Like you need to command respect. And it's a harsh industry. Like lots of players with egos and trying to manage players that aren't playing with those egos is a tough thing to do. And when you've got someone of the stature of Ronaldo like managing him not playing in the dressing room is a difficult thing to do. You know, put yourself in 10 hog shoes. It's a situation where the club have, I think, I believe, told him he has to stay because they want to play him. Now he's not playing and the window's shut. How do you deal with that problem? It's going to be a huge issue. But I felt he dealt with it well. I think the club potentially didn't deal with it very well. If he wasn't going to play, they should have sold him. But then now in that situation where, yeah, he's done that.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Without doubt, I mean, listen, players are on every little moment. Like, if you don't know the answer to a particular question, lie and lie well because players will, if they sense an element of you being unsure about a situation, they'll pounce on it. You're talking about”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were winning at the time I think. It was something that he probably regrets. And I think it's something that the manager dealt with. And I think dealt with well.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In all honesty, it's nothing new. I think it's because it's Ronaldo, it's a huge story. But I've seen it over the course of my career at players who aren't playing, we call it, throwing the toys out the pram, you know, being disruptive, letting their feelings be known that they're not happy with the situation. As players, it's constantly happening, so you don't worry because it's Ronaldo, it's blown out of proportion. I've seen it many times. I've seen it with a particular player. We're playing a preseason match. He just walked off the pitch while we're playing. And this is absolutely ridiculous. He's literally walked in with down to 10 men. No one even noticed he'd gone for the first couple of minutes. And just, yeah, just fuming. But my take on the situation is, I think it's disrespectful to the players that are playing still. They've just won or just.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you are creating a problem for yourself, I think, if you don't consistently deliver. But maybe that's the reason they do consistently deliver because they are wired up differently to a lot of the rest of us.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Until they're not Eric Cantonar, they're not Michael Jordan. They're not Tiger Woods. They're not constantly winning games for you. Because if you set yourself up like that You better perform, and a lot quite often they can because the top players.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because Is there a cantonal? And I think Ryan Giggs was just capable of. Of winning a foot match. Eric Cancana, but where you do where this does fall down is when those players stop performing. And I've seen that. I've seen players get treated differently. And that's fine.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I totally agree with you, but I don't know if the boys told this story last time, but the story of Ryan Giggs. Eric walks in, sits down, doesn't say a word.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dennis. Dennis was a huge part defensively of that setup with the Balls. And if you didn't have him, if you didn't, and I know letting him, I think this is obviously probably too far, but letting him go to Vegas for a couple of weeks. At least you get Dennis back for those games at the end that are important. And I think it's obviously ridiculous for him to do that. That was in his makeup. That was in his DNA. And, you know, is it better for you to let him go to a rival or do you accept that and win the... The titles they did”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're younger than me I remember him clear as day playing with the pause. Yeah. I mean, he, I think, is the greatest sportsman that's ever been. It's a controversial statement. There's so many sportsmen out there, but... Michael Jordan did was unbelievable and that. I loved that kind of mentality going into that mentality of like winning at all costs and watching that balls team because it wasn't just Jordan. That whole team was special”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is the best way to go about things. It's about adapting to people that you might need to speak to on a regular basis, certain people you might need to tell, you know, some home truths, certain people that you might need to constantly get into the office or let someone else deal with him potentially. You know, you might spot a problem that it might have off the field that needs addressing. You know, there's so many factors to being a manager. And I think Alex Ferguson was proven to be the best at that.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that is exactly right. I think if you hit the nail on the head there and the boys, you talk about their it's spot on because you can't treat everyone the same way. You can't even train the same way. If you go in, you know, if you tell in all the players to go in the gym and do this, do a certain weight or be a certain speed. Everyone is different. Everyone's a different character. Everyone's a different mold as a player. Cantonar, for instance, you talk about Sir Alex Ferguson. You know, not many players could handle Cantonar. Alex Ferguson got the best out of Cantonar because he treated him different to how he would treat Gary Neville. And it's not, you know, it's not rocket science, but it's something, it's a quality that not many people have and are not able to adapt. It's like, this is my management style. Everyone has to fall in line with it. I don't think as a manager.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you're getting told that you're this and your that, you're no good. I don't think you have to be a real strong character to be able to cope with that. And when someone comes in and goes, actually, no, you're doing great stuff. It lifts you. It makes you feel better. And that's the way I would manage. And that's the way I think you have to manage these days. I think players are different to how it was when I was coming through. It was very much quite harsh industry. And I think now players are a bit more, you have to be a bit more of an arm around the shoulder guy than them. You know, crack the whip kind of manager”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Things you look at, would I be here without that, without that? And there's lots of really key important moments. And that was definitely one of them, Harry, coming in.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is my time in the Premier League, and it's not going well. I'm not playing. The manager leaves, Harry comes in, he goes, this is my last chance saloon. And I'm thinking, right, well, maybe I'm just the championship player. Harry comes in, it just changes like that. He says, you and Kevin Phillips will be in my front two for the rest of the season. You'll score us enough goals for us to stay up. Just that confidence, that belief. I suppose I felt my height for the first time that season. And I went out and scored 16 goals, I think, after Christmas, and I was on absolute fire, got in the England squad, and moved to Liverpool at the end of the year. So that little spell of six months was crucial to my development as a player, as a person. And would I be sitting here without that?”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's so many reasons for each remote. Jerry Francis gave me my debut. Graham Ricks was a big influence on my. My career, there's good qualities of Svena. I thought Rafa was at times was incredible in some of the work he did, some of the sessions and some of the things tactically were really eye-opening. But Harry Rednapp was, I don't think I'll be sitting here without him. Just because he understood football, he understood a player. And he understood how to get the best out of you. And I think he got the best out of me, certainly at Portsmouth, you know, at Southampton. At Southampton, I was struggling. I thought I've just had a horrible time at Aston Villa.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There were certain things like, you know, with Rafroff, there was a tendency to be too intricate, to be too... Methodical to precise at times. If you could mix a little bit of raffle and a bit of Harry together, I feel that you'd have the perfect manager because. With Rafa, it was like we're playing Wolves at home and we've got Stephen Gerard, Javier Alonso, Fernando Torres, we've got the best back four in the league at the moment and one of the best goalkeepers. Just go out and beat them. I don't think it's that difficult. I don't think you have to play with a couple of holding midfield. Go and express ourselves. And that was my only criticism, you know, like that I could have. I think there was too many times where we were thinking about the opposition instead of saying, we're Liverpool, let's go out and batter them.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there's lots of ways to manage, and I did my coaching badges just before I retired, and you try and use a little bit of the good stuff out of everyone, but obviously RAF are very tactically, Harry Rednapp was a great people person, you know, like he understood people and what they wanted and he made it a nice sort of environment. You know, Sven was saying, was so relaxed, you know, in a pressured environment when you were going into a World Cup, Sven had that aura of calmness around you, which you needed. So like, yeah, great managers that I've had along the way, but very, very different qualities in all of them.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I like Nuno's. I think, you know, he's a bit. I think it's going to take him time to settle in. I don't think we've seen the best of him yet. But as a club, what J ⁇ rgen Klopp's done there. I think I look at young kids now who just expect Liverpool to win the Champions League or win the leagues. You know, it's 30-odd years before. It was a long time. And Jerken Klopps just changed the DNA back into where they were in the 80s. I mean, it's that good. And yeah, they're struggling a little bit now. But what he's done for that football club has been nothing short of incredible. And, you know, we had some great players at my time at the club. But, you know, what they've done is a group has surpassed anything that spell I had done.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I mean, that was you wouldn't get many chances. Then I've also seen players be written off and then come back. which obviously in their eyes would Would make them a good fit for Liverpool.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've seen players be signed and be written off in one training session, you know. £15 million players coming in and like, e shit.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Level of passion that they had for the club Like there's players that aren't, you know, everyone's different. Like you'll know only so well in a place of work, there's no two character the same. You know, so you even need to know what makes people tick. And some people couldn't understand the level of passion that they had for the club, of standards that they had. They might have come from a more relaxed club, but unfortunately, if you want to play for Liverpool, you have to have a certain way about you and a certain standard and that you've fallen below that standard, then players like Stephen and Jamie would tell you very quickly.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You don't do that here. You're at Liverpool now. It's one bad touch is intolerated here. It's that it's only a look, but it was enough to make me not do that again. That kind of standards are different. And I think you get that from certain players like Stephen and Jamie.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're local boys, right? They're legends at the club. When I think of Liverpool, I think of Stephen Gerard and Jamie Carriga. Like Rafa Benitez, I suppose, was a top manager and he signed me and I got only good words to say about him. Stephen Jarard and Absolute Legends of the Club and quite ruthless in their and quite harsh in their appraisal of some players. So I found myself constantly seeking their approval and my training was, you know, I always remember the first training session when Steve wrapped a ball into my feet and I miscontrolled one. And it's like a one look.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So intense, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's what. But I think that's what separates people, isn't it? I think, you know, you've got to want to sacrifice everything. And, you know, I did when I was younger and I did throughout my career. But what I'm saying is that it's that 0.5%, that 1% difference of... Just already thinking about the next game of you know managers do it and as players sometimes We of course enjoy that win and think about the next game when it comes, but the top level players that I've played with, like you say, Lampard, John Terry, Stephen Gerard, Jamie Carrigor are put in that, you know, the Man United boys, like the consistent winners are the ones that I think look like they don't enjoy it because they are constantly battling for the next thing.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What are we doing it for? Yeah, of course it's about winning trophies, but also it's about this moment. We've just won like a huge game, like in the last minute. Whereas sometimes the top level players. Yeah, like Stephen Gerald, prime example of that Just a It looked like there was no enjoyment. Obviously there was enjoyment at times, but it felt like it was just the next game was more important than enjoying this one. And yeah, of course it was, but I was always a little bit like, can we just enjoy this one a little bit? Which is, you know, I think separates, I'd class myself as an elite sportsman. I played at the top level, but I'm talking top top. And that's why they're who they are.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I saw something in those players that... Was slightly different to me. Like, I'm not gonna, I enjoyed what I was doing. Like, I looked at the top, top level players that I played with, and they never looked like they enjoyed it ever. Like, yeah, Gerard. I'd class in that, John Terry, Lampard like the It was always the next game, you know, and I think that's the top level mentality you need to have for me at times I'd go with this lads like let's enjoy this one a little bit because we had a massive game on Tuesday they would already be thinking about yeah that was good It's about the next one. It's always about the next one. And I admire that in people. And I had a steely mentality, but I also thought.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, you know, Andy Carroll, you know, there was Voronin and Gog players that I felt that, you know, basically I felt like I could have played. Having said that, I'll never look back. I've not looked back on any of people even say to me now, Do you miss football? No, I don't miss football. That was a time that I had that was the best. Look back with such fond memories of it. Same at Liverpool. I don't think I should have played there for 10 years. It would have been nice, but I still cherish the moments that I had with Liverpool. And also, I met some great people at Portsmouth and it's such a good club. And that was just off the back of winning the FA Cup. And I really thought we'd get into the Champions League. Our team was that good. So it gave me the opportunity to play and to enjoy my football and to carry on playing for England. So do I regret it? It's the one thing I look back on and think, could I have stayed and could I've been a top, top club for longer. But I love my time at Portsworth as well.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I do a bit. I had a great time at Portsmouth though. And some of those memories will stay with me forever. But leaving Liverpool is a difficult thing to do. I was playing for England at the time and I was loving playing for England. I was playing well and I just thought we signed Fernando Torres. Pragmatic, I understand my role, if you know what I mean, as a player, he was better than me, right? So, what do I do now? He's always going to play. He formed a great partnership with Stephen Gerard. He's done absolute fire. I still believe myself. I still believe I can play for England. I'm still a very good player. I'm just not on Torres' level. So I think he just wasn't getting injured the whole time I was there. And then, you know, I'd left and then he was sold quite quickly to Chelsea. I saw players obviously that were playing.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it would be different if you did have a deadline, though. People will get stuff done on that day. I think, you know, that rushes people, obviously. But yeah, definitely you're seeing like there's this whole thing about a player should show loyalty, but there's also works both ways. Clubs at times, if you aren't performing or you're maybe having, I don't know, issues or problems off the field. Sometimes that silent doesn't get shown as well, you know, where the club will quite happily get rid of you. So, yeah, it works both ways. But yeah, unfortunately, the business that they're in is fine and selling players and winning football matches. And it is a ruthless industry. But I went into that. I realized that very quickly, to be quite honest. But I went into that with open eyes.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I just said, I'll see you in the morning. And I suppose you've got to be prepared to hang up the phone and say that. And then he kept coming back and telling me that I wouldn't get a squad number. I wouldn't, I'll be training with the kids, trying to make my life difficult. And I was like, no problem.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if you think about it, he's getting 16 million, right? Yeah, it's not like I know what he's getting. I'm entitled to see some of that. If you want me to leave, unless I can get that much, obviously, but I did okay. And it worked out for both of us. I don't think there's many people that come out of. Maybe an incident like that with Daniel Levin and come out smiling because he is harsh. But like I say, I had my running with him. And there were times where I said, no, it's okay. I'm happy. I'll see you in the morning. I'm happy at Tottenham. I was comfortable there.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listen, this, you know, it's diary of a CEO, right If I was running a football club, I'd probably have him in charge. It is a harsh businessman, right? But Looking after a billion pound asset, you know, he's not necessarily the owner, but he's running it like it's his own. And I think I understand that. Like the bid of 10 million came in for me. I'm an asset to the business. And I know I'm a person. But if you look at it purely from a business perspective, I'm a depreciating asset at 30 years old, potentially. I went on to 38, to be fair. In his eyes, maybe Wilson Palacios was another six million to go to 16 million they're getting for it's good money it's good business potentially You know, I'm not stupid either, so I had two years left on my deal.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was, you know, a bid came in of £10 million for a 30 year old, and I could understand from a club's perspective that they wanted to accept the offer. They wanted to bring Adebayor in. And I spoke to Harry, and he said, obviously, yeah, we do want to bring Adebayor in, but Daniel Levy wants to accept this bid. Obviously, I wasn't happy about it. I was happy where I was. I was at a great club and I wanted to stay. Certain bits and pieces happened, and I said to Ab, we're on the move.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bit, yeah, yeah, it did. I liked it at Spurs. It was funny because I. Was deadline day and Harry Rednut was talking about bringing Emanuel Alvayor in and it's funny how it works for a footballer but I went Call it work for now. I left Abby and the kids and I said, I'll see you this afternoon, and then this afternoon never came. I never came home. I just give her a call and said, We live in Stoke now. It's the life of a footballer. I was happy out of a two-year contract left at Tottenham.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Achieve things that nobody in that Tottenham sort of dressing room at the time would say I would achieve. I wasn't even good enough to play in their first team, which is correct at the time. So to come back, it felt like unfinished business, if you like. So then when I scored some important goals for Spurs and we got into the Champions League for the first time and we had good success, that felt like it was almost like a coming home, if you like.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I absolutely loved it because I started at Spurs as a youngster and I played in that ball court at Whiteheart Lane and I tried to play in a youth team and I was in the reserves and me and Ledley King came through together. Ledley obviously was there and I went throughout all this whole journey of Liverpool, England, QPR, portsmouth of Southampton on Norwich on loan, Dulwich Hamlet on loan. And I came back to Tottenham, and Ledley was in the same place I left him in. Was amazing. I never got to play in the first team for Tottenham. I'd come through there in the youth team. I had so many players ahead of me. I wasn't ready. So when I come back for £10 million and I'd already played in the Champions League final, I'd played in the World Cup.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then it didn't quite work out. I wasn't ready for the Premier League. I always remember my debut was against Newcastle and Alan Shearer was up the other end of the pitch and I was at this end of the pitch. Obviously the opposite striker. And I thought if that's what I need to be a Premier League player, I'm not one. I'm not one because he was so good. And I just thought maybe I'm a championship player. I ended up having to move again to Southampton to get games. And then things took off. So, like, all my moves were like for a reason for a club point of view, or for a financial thing for the club, or for me having to go out and get football or for me to progress as a player. So I would have loved nothing more than to stay at one club for my whole life. But that wasn't my journey.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a lot of moving around, yeah. But I class that as I'm at Liverpool or, you know, start Manchester United or Chelsea, you know, buying Munich, Real Madrid, you don't have to move anywhere if you're playing, do you? You don't have to. The course of my career was very different to anyone else's course of my career. Those moves that I had were QPR was I had a chance to showcase my talent. You know, I did very well. The club went into administration. I went to Portsmouth. They bought me for like a record fee. I then did really, really well on a championship and got a move to Aston Villa in the Premier League. I felt like my dream had arrived.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was dragging me out and he was making me have a few drinks. And then I realized actually no one, because I've built it up, everyone's laughing at me. It's my world that's actually no one really cares. You know, they might have a laugh at you on a Saturday, but they're going back to their own lives. I feel like everyone's laughing at me all times. You know, you build these things up in your head and they're never as bad as you think they are. Here's way of dealing with it with me was to take me out for a beer. And yeah, I probably did drink a little bit more than I should do as a Premier League player, but I needed to at that time.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because my dad, you know, to be fair to him, would say to me, no, I'd be like, no, I'm not going out. And he'd be like, you're going out. Like, he'd make me go out after games. And I'd be like, I don't want to. People are laughing at me. But he'd dragged me out. We'd have a few beers. Like it wasn't as if I was drinking at home on my own. It wasn't like a dark kind of thing. It was.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I swear to you, any club in the world having just won the Champions League in one of the best finals we've ever seen in Istanbul in 2005, they signed me, right? I turn up and I don't score for 18 games. I don't think there's a club, a top club in the world that tolerates that as a fan base, apart from Liverpool fans. They stuck by me and it was like a siege mentality. It was like everyone else is attacking him, but he's one of us. And we're with him. And it felt like every time I played it, they were willingly to score. And when I eventually did, you can see the footage of it. The camera's shaking. And like the, it's like we've won a European final. Like people wanted me to score that much. I'm thankful to this day that they did stick with me. Because I managed to turn it around after that. It was a special moment at a special club.”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Someone who's depressed, I suppose. I mean, outwardly, outwardly not. I've never been that person to sort of wallow in it. You know, I'm always been the sort of... Suppose a bubbly character obviously the positive in everything. But at that time, it felt like I was getting ridiculed and it was really tough, but I had to sort of fight my way through it. But what was so amazing was the Liverpool fans stuck with me. And that's something that I'll never forget because...”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Such a hard time for me, I always wanted to hide away in a dark room until I scored, basically. So I don't know what I would do if I was hiding away in a dark room with a mobile phone. You might as well just not go out and face it all because it's a lot harsher on the...”
2022-11-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Peter Crouch Opens Up About His Dark Times & Crying Himself To Sleep · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT