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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
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I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
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I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
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At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.
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Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
