Gary Lineker Quotes

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• Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Running

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• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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• Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

  Gary Lineker

  Kindness, Heart, Long

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• The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's being in the right place all the time. Because if I make 20 runs to the near post and each time I lose my defender, and 19 times the ball goes over my head or behind me - then one time I'm three yards out, the ball comes to the right place and I tap it in - then people say, right place, right time. And I was there *all* the time.

  Gary Lineker

  Running, People, Yards

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• If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Crowds, Spit

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• To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  Gary Lineker

  Thoughtful, Leaving, Majority

  "Gary Lineker: I won't let abusive messages drive me off Twitter" by Paul Byrne, www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2012.

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• You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

  Gary Lineker

  Chance, Reaching, Reaching The Top

  "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

  Gary Lineker

  Years, World, Four

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• There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• ...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

  Gary Lineker

  Player, Black, Doe

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• The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

  Gary Lineker

  Team, Successful, Player

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• Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

  Gary Lineker

  Commitment, Pace, Ageing

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.

  Gary Lineker

  Distance, Games, Play

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• Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

  Gary Lineker

  Knives, Boss, Answers

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• I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

  Gary Lineker

  Night, Watches, Want

  "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

  Gary Lineker

  Sports, Team, Challenges

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• Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Games, League

  Twitter post from Apr 6, 2014

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• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  Gary Lineker

  Beach, Photo Of Me, Long

  "Gary Lineker reveals he's staying with the BBC.. and reveals men fall over themselves to speak to Danielle in the street". www.mirror.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  Gary Lineker

  Teacher, Nurse, Tree

  "They think it's all overpaid: Gary Lineker blasts footballers' big wages". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2012.

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• Ooh, it's too ­embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well ­received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so ­inept.

  Gary Lineker

  Romantic, Drama, College

  "Gary Lineker reveals he's staying with the BBC.. and reveals men fall over themselves to speak to Danielle in the street". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

  Gary Lineker

  Hands, Balls, Handball

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• Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.

  Gary Lineker

  Distance, Player, Champions League

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