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My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

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Alan Shearer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 13
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
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First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.
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