Footballer Quotes - Page 7

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  I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Games

  Interview with Neil Ashton, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 16, 2013.

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• The money footballers earn today is incredulous

  Bobby Gould

  Today

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• In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

  Paul Merson

  Class, World, England

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• Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.

  Fabrice Muamba

  Player, Games, Missing

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• It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.

  Samir Nasri

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Without our injuries Arsenal would be top of league, says Samir Nasri", April 20, 2010.

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• Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

  John Barrowman

  Men, Rome, Would Be

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• A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Ireland And The Irish, Inferiority

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• Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

  Jamelia

  Wife, Leeches, Want

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• I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Strong

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• As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

  Ryan Giggs

  Children, Years, Use

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• George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Finals, World

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• But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Team

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• What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

  Ryan Giggs

  Fighting, Player, Kicking

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

  David Icke

  Father, School, Views

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

  Steven Gerrard

  Dad, Determined, Building

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

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

  Jo Nesbo

  Norway, Maradona, Lost

  " Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2011.

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• Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?

  Ryan Giggs

  Jobs, Going Out, Taste

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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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• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left it would have been to England.

  Xavi

  Cheating, Player, Games

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

  Jessie J

  Play, Voice, Feet

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

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