Gary Lineker Quotes
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
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It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.
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World Cups can be career-defining.
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People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.
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Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
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On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.
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This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.
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My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.
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A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
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The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.
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I'm in good shape.