Gary Lineker Quotes

I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.

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• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

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  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

  

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  • Live
  • Kids
  • Education

• The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

  

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  • Up
  • Team
  • Football

• Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

  

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  • World
  • Money
  • Today

• The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.

  

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  • Die
  • Spirit
  • Attitude

• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

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  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

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  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

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  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

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  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

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  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

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  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

  

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  • Goals
  • Interested
  • Anything

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

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  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

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  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

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  • Wife
  • Weather
  • Cultures

• You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

  

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  • Age

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

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  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

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  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

  

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  • Think
  • Expected
  • Behave

• My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

  

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  • Son
  • Baby
  • Doing

• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

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  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.

  

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  • People
  • Love
  • Best

• It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

  

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  • Time
  • World
  • English