Gary Lineker Quotes
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.