Motivation Quote by Jamie Redknapp

There is a weary clarity in Redknapp's line: a boundary drawn with the blunt tools athletes are forced to use when politeness gets mistaken for access. "Outside of the game" is doing the heavy lifting. It frames football as a public contract - performance, results, maybe even attitude on the pitch - while everything else is positioned as off-limits, not because it's scandalous, but because it isn't part of the job description.

The intent is practical. As a player turned media figure in an era when tabloids and sports coverage increasingly blurred into the same attention economy, Redknapp is asserting control over the narrative. Athletes are routinely sold as characters, not workers: their family life becomes "context", their night out becomes "form", their friendships become "chemistry". This sentence refuses that logic. It's not defensive so much as corrective.

The subtext is that privacy is no longer a default; it has to be argued for, almost like a privilege. The phrasing "should be my business" is telling - not "is", but "should be" - acknowledging the reality that the public often behaves as if it owns the off-field story, too. It's a quiet pushback against the celebrity upgrade package footballers didn't request but are expected to pay for with their personal lives.

In Redknapp's world, the line between a fair question and an invasive one is constantly negotiated. This quote is him drawing it in permanent marker.