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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

Wayne Rooney

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Wayne Rooney
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 24
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Soccer Player
City of Liverpool
Wayne Mark Rooney
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.
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Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
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When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.
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I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.
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I might have faults but I'm not a big head.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory' before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.
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I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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