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Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves
Rio Ferdinand
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Rio Ferdinand
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 7
Association Football Player
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Film Producer
Soccer Player
Cambrewelle
Rio Gavin Ferdinand
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At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.
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I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.
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It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.
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If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
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You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
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Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.
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No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
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I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
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He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)
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For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.
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Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” - it'll be 40 yards away - “I'm going to hit it”. And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.
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For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.
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You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.
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So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?
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His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays. It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.
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It hit me like a thunderbolt!
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Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.
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In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.
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I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne.
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If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.
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