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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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Alan Shearer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 13
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Soccer Player
Sports Commentator
Newcastle
Tackle
Cheer
Pass
Hard
Sometimes
Great
Going
Generates
Louder

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I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.
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If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.
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The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong I'd rather win the Cup than the League.
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If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being 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.
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I still get butterflies when England are playing.
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One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
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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'.
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Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless
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It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.
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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.
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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.
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