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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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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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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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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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Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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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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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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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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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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World Cups can be career-defining.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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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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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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Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.
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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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It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
Gary Lineker