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Association Football Player Inspirational Quotes (4602)

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I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.
Liam Neeson
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I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.
Thierry Henry
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I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport.
Robbie Rogers
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There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.
Alan Shearer
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You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.
Alan Shearer
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People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic. (on Thierry Henry)
Alan Shearer
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Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless
Alan Shearer
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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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