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" As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin. "

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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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" I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters. "

" I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs. "

" In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years. "

" I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things. "

" Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through. "

" I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life. "

" That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at. "

" 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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" My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather. "

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