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Is he ever going to learn?
Graham Taylor / Football Manager
Football
Player
Soccer
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Very few great goals actually go in.
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Football
Goal
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People always remember the second half.
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Half
People
Soccer
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If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.
Graham Taylor / Football Manager
Football
I Can
Ifs
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Footballers are no different from human beings.
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Different
Football
Humans
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In football, time and space are the same thing.
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Space
Football
Time And Space
Time Sports Football
Same Thing
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He's a player you only miss when he's not playing
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Inspiration
Missing
Player
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Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is
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Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.
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Shearer
Soccer
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I missed all of the 2010 season due to Tommy John surgery.
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Dues
Seasons
Surgery
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I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.
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Coward
Football
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It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.
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Results
Soccer
Way
Irrespective
Result
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Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.
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Fitness
Cent
Per
Peak
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We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing
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Blame
Cups
World
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The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.
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Ambition
England
Should
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I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.
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Mechanic
Player
Worst Enemy
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Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
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Luck
Lucky
Thinking
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To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.
Graham Taylor / Football Manager
Bars
Body
Heart
Hope Must Will
Bar
Bodies
Hearts
Throw
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Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.
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Cups
England
World
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I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not.
Graham Taylor / Football Manager
Answers
Appearance
Might
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There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."
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Balls
Football
Squares
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It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.
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Chairman
Football
Soccer
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You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
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Sports
Community
France
Germany
Holland
Magnificent
Pristine
Village
Facilities
Tiniest
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Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
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Football
Roots
Thinking
Charge
Connection
Supporters
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I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
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Goes On
Sound
Want
Carefully
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Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
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Ideas
Life Is Like
Soccer
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Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
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Goldfish
Bowl
Whatsoever
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Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.
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Football
Machines
Wall
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In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
Graham Taylor / Football Manager
Discipline
Football
Games
Player
Preparing
Staff
Time Football Your
Club
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I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person.
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Opportunity
Play
Watches
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In order to stay connected with my fans I do my best to sign autographs before and after every game as well sign all cards that are sent to me via throughout the year.
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Games
Order
Years
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In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
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Clubs
Football
Games
Player
Recovering
Saturday
No Time
Proper
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I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.
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Kentucky
Numbers
School
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I always dreamed of playing for the UK since I grew a huge UK fan but once I started visiting schools I fell in love with Miami University and decided it was the right place for me.
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Fans
Miami
School
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My favorite team growing up was the Cincinnati Reds. Living within 10 minutes of the ball park I went to as many games as possible growing up as long as they didn't conflict with my baseball schedule.
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Baseball
Growing Up
Team
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I started playing well and felt comfortable. That season a set a Jamestown record of consecutive innings pitched with out a walk. (40 2\3 innings, i think) and was named Jamestown Pitcher of the Year.
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Jamestown
Thinking
Years
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In 2008 and 2009 I was very blessed to be with Manager Brandon Hyde and Pitching coach Reid Corneilus. They both were extremely professional and did a great job helping prepare everyone for the next level.
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Jobs
Blessed
Next Level
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I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers.
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Play
Spring
Training
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The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.
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Football
Games
Glad
Smell
Wrong Reasons
Love Money Football
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Chose
Love Money Game
Leave
Reasons
Sacked
So Many People
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Jamestown was a very small town and I was thrilled to be there. It was interesting at first be adapting to the pro ball life style of being on the road alot and having a game almost every day but once I got use to it everything felt right.
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Games
Interesting
Style
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As a freshman at Miami I started of as a reliever for the first few games and quickly moved into the rotation as the Saturday started for conference play. That year was very successful, I was name a Freshman All-American as well as 2nd Team All-MAC.
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Names
Successful
Team
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His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)
Graham Taylor / Football Manager
Believe
Football
Simple
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I had been working on some mechanical issues before I got called up. When I got called up I was focused on trying to be mechanically correct instead of enjoying the moment and competing like I had always done which is probably the main reason to why I wasn't very successful in my first start.
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Issues
Successful
Trying
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Being a able to work with Reid [Corneilus] one on one those two seasons were great he taught me the ins and outs of pitching and what I needed to do to be successfull. My first Two years of pro ball I was under the instruction of John Duffy who was excellent as well. With out those two helping me through out the way I dont think I would have been able to excel as much as i did.
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Thinking
Two
Years
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When I got drafted I was sitting at home with my Mom watching the draft live on the internet when my name popped up on the screen. We both jumped up in joy and I immediately called my Dad who was out of town for work. Everyone was thrilled and then about 10 minutes late Matt Anderson (the Marlins scout who drafted me) called to give me the news as well and to start negotiating a contract.
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Dad
Home
Mom
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I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.
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Baseball
Senior
Team
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Miami awarded me with the teams Pitcher of the year as well as Rookie of the year. My career at Miami only got better from there, I went on the Cape Cod baseball league for 2 consecutive summers where I did well and also to help lead our Miami team to both MAC regular season and tournament champions in 2005. I finished my career at Miami holding a few conference records including career innings pitched and by getting drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 10th round.
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Baseball
Summer
Team
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