“I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky...” — Jermain Defoe Quote

I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.

I was always quite outspoken as a teenager and quite cheeky in school and stuff.

Oh, I like Roger Moore - he's cheeky.