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I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Alan Shearer

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Alan Shearer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 13
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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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I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.
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Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless
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Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.
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First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.
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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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If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.
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If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.
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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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At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.
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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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Defeat is not worth thinking about.
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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.
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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)
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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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Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
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I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?
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