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Association Football Manager Inspirational Quotes (1822)

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The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
Alan Shearer
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If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
Alan Shearer
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One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.
Alan Shearer
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I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
Alan Shearer
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I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.
Alan Shearer
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Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.
Alan Shearer
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I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.
Alan Shearer
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I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.
Alan Shearer
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There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
Alan Shearer
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As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.
Alan Shearer
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People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.
Alan Shearer
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Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.
Alan Shearer
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I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.
Alan Shearer
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No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.
Alan Shearer
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I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.
Alan Shearer
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Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
Alan Shearer
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I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.
Alan Shearer
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One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
Alan Shearer
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Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.
Alan Shearer
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I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that's for sure.
Alan Pardew
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I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.
Alan Pardew
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It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)
Alan Pardew
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The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.
Alan Pardew
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It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
Alan Pardew
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