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" It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere. "

Gary Lineker

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" I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people. "

" Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. "

" 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 whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition. "

" If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't. "

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

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

" In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA. "

" My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways. "

" If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it. "

" I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different. "

" Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows. "

" Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week. "

" I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them. "

" I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness. "

" Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see. "

" People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now. "

" Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston. "

" 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 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. "

" When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match. "