Quotes by Patrice Evra - Page 2

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Accustomed
Rain
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It's normal to win the championship. It's Manchester United. We don't have the right to make mistakes.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Championship
Manchester
Manchester United
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I have a lot to thank Italy for. It's the country that opened the door to professional football for me.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Italy
Opened
Professional Football
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Messi is unbelievable, but Ronaldo does it on his own. In Madrid, he has to score the goals and create them.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Madrid
Messi
Score
Unbelievable
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People can call me arrogant, but why should I lie? Of course I feel strong, and of course I am proud as well.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Arrogant
I Am Me Lie
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Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.
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Hardest Part
Pyramid
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Everyone thinks if they have a problem, the first thing they want to do is play football and enjoy themselves.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
First Thing
The First Thing
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When you play for Manchester United, any year you don't win the title, you feel like you haven't done your job.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Manchester
Manchester United
Title
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You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Best World People
Badly
Final
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I always say the Premier League is like two boxers fighting. The one who is least strong gets tired; he does down.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Boxers
Premier League
Premier
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If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.
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Boxing
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The minute Juventus came calling, I knew it was the right choice for me. They have the same winning mentality as me.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Mentality
Right Choice
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I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Australia
Developing
Rugby
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In Europe, being fast, being strong, playing only with your quality, you are going to struggle against teams that prepare.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Being Strong
Prepare
Teams
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You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.
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Devil
Shoulders
Bear
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I am at the top of the pyramid, but I am not stupid, and I realise that one small step could see me fall down very quickly.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Stupid I Am Me
Pyramid
Realise
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When you are young, you might be in the wrong position, but you know you are fast, and so you can compensate with your speed.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Speed
Compensate
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I've always believed that when you play for Juve, the goal at the start of the year is to win the title and a lot of trophies.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Trophies
Title
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Players who play in the Premiership play everywhere - they are strong, quick, and have good technique. It is the best football.
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Technique
Best Good Football
Premiership
Quick
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I always say the biggest opponent for Manchester United is Manchester United. Every year I play for this club, I will say the same.
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Manchester
Manchester United
Opponent
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I think the French teams sometimes doubt themselves. They play some beautiful games but, when it comes down to it, do not go through.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Teams
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A lot of people say I am not tall and I am small guy. But I jump very high. I surprise a lot of people when I go for the corner kicks.
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Surprise
Corner
Jump
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It doesn't matter if you go somewhere and you're still winning - it's always the wrong decision to leave a club like Manchester United.
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Manchester
Manchester United
Wrong Decision
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The only thing is against Messi you can stop him 10 times, but if he passes you once and scores, people say, 'Evra played a poor game.'
Patrice Evra / Footballer
Messi
Passes
Scores
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I remember, in my first interview after I arrived in Manchester, I said, 'I didn't come here to play in the Champions League - I have come to win it.'
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Champions League
Manchester
Champions
Interview
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Some might say friendlies are unimportant, but we always try to win because we then maintain that positive mentality when the real competitions start.
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Mentality
Unimportant
Competitions
Maintain
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It doesn't matter who we play against, whether it is Barcelona or another big team: when you are Man United, you do not have an excuse. You have to win.
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Barcelona
Excuse
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The Premier League title is very important, of course. I always say to play in the league and to win the title is very difficult. It makes you very proud.
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Premier League
Premier
Title
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I was only a 17-year-old lad when I played for Marsala, and while I didn't play much at Monza, that is where I met my agents, who are like brothers to me.
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Agents
Lad
Me Play Who
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Wazza, when he plays behind the striker, he is very dangerous because he has more touches of the ball, and Wazza can create the goal as well and can score.
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Score
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For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That's what people remember.
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Arsenal
Centre
Afterwards
Football Me Remember
Title
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I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.
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Cities
Play
Sunshine
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It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.
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Past
Sacrifice
Special
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There are some pundits with whom I will settle my differences... they want to sell a lie to the French people that Evra is disliked. But that is not the case at all.
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Differences
Pundits
Disliked
French People
Settle
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Playing for Manchester United demands huge sacrifices. It is a club for workers, and we are there to slog our guts out. There is no bling and sequins about the place.
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Guts
Manchester
Manchester United
Workers
Sacrifices
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I came to Turin above all for my family, because at Manchester, they had inserted a clause in our agreement which changed the situation considerably. It really annoyed me.
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Agreement
Annoyed
Manchester
Clause
Considerably
Inserted
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I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.
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Football
Rip
Soccer
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You have to win the title with a strong team and a strong defence, but I don't only like to talk about the four defenders and the goalkeeper when you concede goals. It's about the team.
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Defence
Defenders
Concede
Goalkeeper
Strong Team
Title
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I don't have to prepare any differently because it's Messi, because every day in training I am up against people like Rooney, Berbatov, Ronaldo, and Tevez, so you know what to do against big players.
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Messi
Training
I Am Day People
Prepare
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When you start to work out during your holidays, you know you've got the motivation. When I stop working hard during my holidays and getting excited before the beginning of the season, that's when I'll know it's time to call it quits.
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Holidays
Quits
Working Hard
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I remember, in 2008, and we won the Champions League and the Premier League, and we were having our photos taken with the trophies, and someone said to me, 'Patrice, you don't look happy.' I said, 'It's because we are missing the FA Cup.'
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Champions League
League
Missing
Premier League
Taken
Trophies
Me Look Remember
Champions
Cup
Won
Look Me Remember
Photos
Premier
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When I hear people say Patrice never had someone to fight him for his place, I think they have bad memories. They forget very quickly how I got to become Manchester United's left-back. I fought with two great players in Gabriel Heinze and Mikael Silvestre.
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Gabriel
Manchester
Fought
Hear People
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This club is steeped in history and I feel privileged to have become a part of that ... An immense thank you to Sir Alex Ferguson for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain, to be inspired by the legend of Manchester United and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club.
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Alex
Ferguson
Giving
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People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.
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France
Lying
People
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This is the United spirit: you can play everywhere. If you want to win, you have to accept it. You can see Antonio Valencia playing right-back as well. Only because United play like a team. The team is the star, not only one player, that’s why you can put me and Michael Carrick at centre-back; we’re going to win because it’s the team effort and team spirit. That’s why I’m confident. I’ve said that from the beginning – in six years playing here – the Man United spirit… no one team has got that spirit. This is United. This is why I’m so proud to play here.
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Stars
Team
Winning
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