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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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Gary Lineker

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" We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money. "

" What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time. "

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

" I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy. "

" It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect. "

" I'm in good shape. "

" I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.' "

" You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money. "

" In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't. "

" I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else. "

" 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. "

" We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart. "

" World Cups can be career-defining. "

" We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football. "

" I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too. "

" Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport. "

" 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. "

" I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full. "

" Twitter has been a godsend for travelling. "

" 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. "

" I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged. "

" It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world. "

Gary Lineker

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" I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too. "

" The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace. "

" We do not want to alienate supporters. "

" The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again. "

" I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination. "

" I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner. "

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