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I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Rio Ferdinand

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Rio Ferdinand
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: November 7
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Film Producer
Soccer Player
Cambrewelle
Rio Gavin Ferdinand
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Seasons
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Always

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There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
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It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.
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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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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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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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It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson)
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For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.
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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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It hit me like a thunderbolt!
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There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.
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Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.
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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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He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)
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If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
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You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.
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I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne.
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I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here. (on Sir Alex Ferguson)
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Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?
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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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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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