Alan Shearer Quotes
You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.
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There are so many people I wish I could have met:
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You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.
