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If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Frank Lampard

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Frank Lampard
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Soccer Player
Frank James Lampard
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I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.
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If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.
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When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.
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I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.
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I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.
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I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.
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If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.
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I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.
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In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
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In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.
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Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.
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I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.
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There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.
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Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.
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I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.
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There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]
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I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.
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I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up
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A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.
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Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
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