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The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

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Michael Owen
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: December 14
Association Football Player
Soccer Player
Michael James Owen
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The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.
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A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.
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I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.
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The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.
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[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.
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I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.
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Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.
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I loved [Real Madrid]. It was a real experience, playing with a great team. One of the first questions I'm often asked is 'What was Madrid like?' It's got that mystique about it. It's a magical place and a magical team, and everything about it is great.
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Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.
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Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.
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I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.
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Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward's dream, you could make a run and he'd put the ball perfectly in your path. Any footballer you ask will always tell you that Scholesy was one of the best players they've ever played with.
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To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.
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You're on your own out there with ten mates.
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If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
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An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
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There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
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[Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.
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I have always been confident that I would make it to the top.
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