Rio Ferdinand Quotes

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• Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” - it'll be 40 yards away - “I'm going to hit it”. And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, Tree, Training

  "Simply the best" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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• Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Steps, Step Up

  "Quotes of the year - Part 1: The daftest quotes from players, managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2008.

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• You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Games, Next, Behind You

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• For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Idiot

  "Rio Ferdinand calls John Terry an 'idiot' over Anton Ferdinand race row" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2014.

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• I thought I would be at United for a couple of years, maybe three or four, and then go abroad somewhere. But I just fell in love with Manchester United. I fell in love with winning, fell in love with the history of the club and being part of it was something I could never have imagined.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Couple, Winning, Years

  "Rio Ferdinand exclusive: Man United was supposed to be temporary but I fell in love with the place" by John Cross, www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Senior, Needs, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Believe, Racist

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• So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Character, Want

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• There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, Order, Bangs

  "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

  Rio Ferdinand

  High Standards, Standards, Knows

  "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.

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• There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs in non-league. There comes a time in your career when the pennies got to drop, where you've got to understand decisionmaking at the right, poignant moments in the game. When to pass, when to dribble, when to shoot. Game-changing moments, can you be the guy that sits there and takes the responsibility. And the great players do.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Responsibility, Player, Guy

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Play, Ideas

  "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, Zidane, Messi

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• I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Sports, Responsibility, Doe

  "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.

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• For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Taken, Games

  "Ferdinand told volley is off target" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2006.

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• I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Men, Doubt, Pace

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• Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Taken, Years, Clubs

  "Daft quotes of the week" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. April 07, 2008.

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• It hit me like a thunderbolt!

  Rio Ferdinand

  Thunderbolts

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• Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Believe, Winning

  "This time it's for Rio". Interview with Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it.
  (on Kieran Richardson)

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, England, Coming Out

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• People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Night, Reality, Thinking

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