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" At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers. "
Michael Owen
Powers
Around
Things
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" There's nothing quite like a World Cup. "
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Cup
World Cup
Nothing
" Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one. "
Michael Owen
End
Think
Game
" The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast. "
Michael Owen
Football
Stand
Man
" I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction. "
Michael Owen
Satisfaction
Know
You
" I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power. "
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Two
Run
Three
" I want to have as normal a life as possible. "
Michael Owen
Life
Possible
Want
" I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life. "
Michael Owen
You
Thinking
Think
" I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come. "
Michael Owen
You
Wait
Myself
" To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare. "
Michael Owen
Winner
Alone
Mother
" You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football. "
Michael Owen
Win
Football
Fly
" Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that. "
Michael Owen
Passion
Never
Career
" The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. "
Michael Owen
Winning
Myself
Achievement
" As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened. "
Michael Owen
Kid
Manager
Talk
" If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing. "
Michael Owen
Squad
Me
Family
" You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really. "
Michael Owen
Me
Think
You
" I find it hard to say no to people. "
Michael Owen
People
Find
Say
" I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19. "
Michael Owen
Right
Age
Three
" There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster. "
Michael Owen
More
Manchester United
Doubt
" As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment. "
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Ways
Considered
Exceptional
" I was born to score goals, I feel. "
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Feel
Score
I Was Born
" I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit. "
Michael Owen
Think
Rest
Life
" If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England. "
Michael Owen
Doubt
Gone
Career
" I have been very fortunate in that my career has taken me on a journey I could only have dreamed of. "
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Career
Journey
Me
" An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed. "
Michael Owen
Injuries
Emotion
Had
" I don't feel pressure going into games. "
Michael Owen
Feel
Games
Pressure
" I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me. "
Michael Owen
Goals
Born
Feel
" If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle. "
Michael Owen
You
Goals
Game
" My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride. Our foundation mare is special to our hearts. She was one of my first ever horses. She was my first ever winner at Chester, which is also special, and she's just the apple of our eyes, really. "
Michael Owen
Ride
Winner
Foundation
" You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different. "
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Confidence
Am
You
" I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score. "
Michael Owen
Time
I Am
Going