Quotes by Patrick Bamford - Page 1

The fans are entitled to voice their opinion.
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Entitled
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No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.
Patrick Bamford /
Bench
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It's important to feel wanted by your manager.
Patrick Bamford /
Important Feel Your
Manager
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My dream was to play for Chelsea - maybe I was bit naive.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
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I would tell most youngsters to play every week if they can.
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Youngsters
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If you are doing well, then your name is always bandied about.
Patrick Bamford /
Always Your Doing
Bandied
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It will be a tough task to break into the first team at Chelsea.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Task
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Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.
Patrick Bamford /
Handed
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I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.
Patrick Bamford /
Biology
Chemistry
Studies
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As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.
Patrick Bamford /
Climbing
Pushing
Ladder
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Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.
Patrick Bamford /
League
Premier League
Aged
Premier
Regularly
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I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.
Patrick Bamford /
Cleaning
Toilets
Floors
Forest
Scrubbing
Shower
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I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.
Patrick Bamford /
Struggling
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I want to play for Chelsea. I hope I do get that chance, and I think I can compete.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Compete
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In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Failed
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I've always believed that when I play up front and once I've scored, then I keep scoring.
Patrick Bamford /
Scoring
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I've really enjoyed my time at Palace. The lads were brilliant; the gaffer and training were great.
Patrick Bamford /
Brilliant
Enjoyed
My Time
Training
Time Great Training
Lads
Palace
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The thought of playing in Spain did whet my appetite - playing in a new country and everything that comes with it.
Patrick Bamford /
Appetite
Spain
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I don't have any reason not to be at Chelsea. It is my dream to put on that blue shirt and play for them eventually.
Patrick Bamford /
Blue
Chelsea
Shirt
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We have to try to be positive now and look to the future and think positive things: then positive things will happen.
Patrick Bamford /
Positive
Positive Things
Future Look Will
Happen
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It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.
Patrick Bamford /
Best Way
Developing
Loan
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Relegation hurts, of course. It's one of the things that you will keep forever. But you have to move on as soon as you can.
Patrick Bamford /
Hurts
Move On
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After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'
Patrick Bamford /
Gary
Ideally
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A lot of people said I left Nottingham Forest for the wrong reasons, but that wasn't true. I wanted to play for a top team like Chelsea.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Left
Said
Team
Wanted
Wrong Reasons
Wrong
Forest
Reasons
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Obviously, when I signed for Middlesbrough, I was hoping that we would stay up and that I'd be a big player for them in the Premier League.
Patrick Bamford /
League
Premier League
Hoping
Obviously
Premier
Signed
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Sometimes you have to take the opportunity when it comes because it might not come again. That's what my thoughts were when I went to Chelsea.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
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I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.
Patrick Bamford /
Left
Scholar
Forest
Second
Stimulated
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We've actually got a Chelsea loan WhatsApp group. The loan department set it up. Sometimes it drains your battery when everyone is messaging each other.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Department
Drains
Loan
Whatsapp
Battery
Group
Messaging
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Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.
Patrick Bamford /
Private School
Best Dad Me
Purely
Socks
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When I go on loan, I don't really think about Chelsea. I just concentrate on the team I'm at and try to help them, same as when I was at MK Dons, Derby, and Middlesbrough.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Derby
Loan
Team
Concentrate
Help
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Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.
Patrick Bamford /
Private School
Working Class
Football Me People
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I had a chat with my dad and decided that sometimes you've just got to look like you're fighting. So I started putting myself about a bit more, showing a bit more aggression in training.
Patrick Bamford /
Decided
Fighting
Training
Chat
Putting
Showing
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If you play for managers like Karl Robinson, it's about your development, but there are times when you have to stick up for yourself and let defenders know you are around when nobody is looking.
Patrick Bamford /
Defenders
Managers
Robinson
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When I decided to move to Chelsea, I got a bit of stick at the time, but I didn't move just because of the money or just because it was a big club. I moved there because I wanted to play for them.
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Chelsea
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I got a phone call from David Moyes: he was interested in me going out to Real Sociedad, and I was quite keen on the idea if I didn't get the Premier League club that I wanted. Going abroad appealed to me.
Patrick Bamford /
League
Premier League
Abroad
Quite
Appealed
David
Interested
Call
Club
Phone
Phone Call
Premier
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There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.
Patrick Bamford /
Chelsea
Helping
Livelihood
Massive
Bench
Mortgages
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At a club like Chelsea, they have the money to buy world class strikers like Diego Costa, and there's also that pressure to win trophies. I just have to stick with it, be patient, and hopefully my rewards will come.
Patrick Bamford /
Be Patient
Chelsea
Patient
Rewards
Trophies
Money World Will
Diego
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I went home every night wondering how to get in the Burnley team. It was, 'You've been brought up nicely, had everything handed to you.' Is that what people think just because I went to private school and played instruments?
Patrick Bamford /
Every Night
Instruments
Private School
Handed
Nicely
Wondering
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I think for every young player of my age, they have to go out on loan. I know there's an U21 league and the Europa League for the youth teams, but it's not the same as playing men's football, when there's a lot more riding on it.
Patrick Bamford /
Loan
Riding
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If you don't play well, people don't watch the game, but if you have scored, your name flashes up; it doesn't matter how you've played. So as a striker, that is what I've got to try to do - make sure I score - and if you're doing that, you're also helping the team.
Patrick Bamford /
Helping
Score
Flashes
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If I started something, I had to finish. Like with violin. I started when I was seven only because my best mate wanted to. I hated it and wanted to quit, but Dad made me continue, and I got to grade seven. My parents said I had to know the value of stuff and work for stuff.
Patrick Bamford /
Seven
Violin
Best Work Dad
Finish
Grade
Mate
Quit
Value
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We have a psychologist at Chelsea who goes around seeing the loan players. He said every top, top player has a dark side. So someone like Diego Costa sometimes oversteps the mark. But you can see he plays on the edge. He said I had to develop that. It's not natural for me to be like that.
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Chelsea
Dark Side
Loan
Psychologist
Diego
Edge
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