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736 Footballer Quotes

I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we'll fix it.

Feel Fix Wrong Confidence
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Success Accident Love Work
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When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

School Language Friend Start
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The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Bottom Start Head Main
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When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise.

Result Good Seem Arise
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Pressure Team Attack Point
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I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Accept Accidental Come Hard
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Enthusiasm Everything Guitar Like
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Dangerous Place Footballer Friend
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Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Dead Earth End Everything
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If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

Easy Education Give Manipulate
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I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Awake Honest Know Lie
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A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Because Becomes Colleagues Confidence
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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.

Always Prepared Care Father
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I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Being About Individual Way
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I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

Believe Cannot Career Explain
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If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Allowed Away Because Best
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When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

Against Because Difficult Dirty
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When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.
Lot Stupid Things You
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All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Life Thank God Family
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Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

Abroad Always Both Brazil
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The midfielders are important: they have to offer themselves to receive the ball and make good use of it, take choices, try not to lose the ball and defend. But I don't feel like a leader at all.

Ball Choices Defend Feel
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I used to enjoy watching Ronald Koeman, even though he didn't play in my position. I loved the way he hit the ball, the talent he had to position himself.

Ball Enjoy Even Had
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Everything can change in the Champions League.
Champions Champions League Change Everything
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I have played at Liverpool, a special club, grown as a player and won titles.

Club Grown Liverpool Played
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The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

Family Criticism Worry Hurts
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Like Zidane I want to inspire the kids.

Inspire Zidane Kids Like
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Anything can happen in football.

Anything Football Happen
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Mesut is one of those unique players you see every once in a while. He has the gift of a perfect touch in tight spaces that makes him special.

Mesut is one of those unique players you see every once in a while. He has the gift of a perfect touch in tight spaces that makes him special.
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Real Madrid is a big club, and like at any other big club, too, there are always critics after defeats.

After Always Any Big
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Ronaldo can create and score goals.
Create Goals Score
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Football is a lot to do with mental state.

Football Lot Mental State
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I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.

Accept Am Because Difficult
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I'm very satisfied to close my time as footballer.

Close Footballer My Time Satisfied
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I remember playing with my dad, and my kids will remember this as well.

Dad I Remember Kids Playing
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I have been lucky enough to work with great coaches. My father was also a coach, and my position in central midfield requires tactical knowledge.

Also Been Central Coach
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Kroos is an excellent player.

Excellent Player
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I have learned from all of my coaches, and I am sure I will learn a lot with Guardiola.

Am Coaches I Am I Have Learned
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I don't try to do things that might make me look stupid, because the risk is there.

Because Look Make Me
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At Liverpool, I used to read the match day programme, and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team. They'd ask age, heroes, strong points, etc. He'd reply, 'Shooting and tackling.' I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play.

Age Ask Characteristic Day
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I will always be grateful to Liverpool. It is a very special club.

Always Be Grateful Club Grateful
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I think Kimmich is a bit like Mascherano. They are similar type of players.

Bit I Think Like Players
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While I was at Madrid, for me, Cristiano was the best.

Best Madrid Me While
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I prefer not to compare teams because it's not fair at all.

Because Compare Fair Not Fair
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Cristiano has unique qualities, brings danger in one-on-one situations, and has the ability to score and find something different.

Ability Brings Danger Different
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Each time I watch a Liverpool game, I feel something special, especially whenever it's at Anfield, because it brings back great memories.

Back Because Brings Each
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I hardly ever get in the box.
Box Ever Get Hardly
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Madrid is a big city. It's very dynamic and cosmopolitan.

Big Big City City Cosmopolitan
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You have to know your role and accept it, because that's what is best for the team.

Accept Because Best Know
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In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make things happen around you are not appreciated. Making a tackle, a run into the box - the spectacular things are more appreciated.

Appreciated Around Being Box
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