Chris Waddle Quotes
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I know I can't go on forever – I'll probably stop when I reach 50 – but I love playing football. It's as simple as that.
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I love entertaining people, being a showman. I loved the atmosphere on the terraces when I set off on a dribble.
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You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.
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When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.
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It makes me laugh when I see people trying to coach kids. You cannot coach seven-year-olds. I was never coached and I bet John Barnes was never coached, or Peter Beardsley, or Paul Gascoigne.
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I'm an England fan and I have struggled to comprehend how, from 1990 when we came so close to reaching the final, we have never kicked on from there. I thought we would but we never have.
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Look at the great players who've missed penalties, players like Michel Platini, Marco van Basten, Diego Armando Maradona. It happens.
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[on taking penalties] I was always happier scoring from 20 yards.
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We have got to wake up in this country and realize that we are not a great team. We coach too much at a young age and we take the skill away from our youngsters.
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I'm not saying that just because you're a great player you'll be a great manager but people like John Barnes have a knowledge of the game you'll never find in any coaching book.
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The one thing Cristiano Ronaldo has is pace, quick feet and a great eye for goal.
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Gareth Southgate has shown the loyalty that Bobby Robson did to us in Italy 28 years ago.