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It hit me like a thunderbolt!
Rio Ferdinand / Soccer Player
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It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.
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Meetings
Nelson
Wicked
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I didn't expect to be dropped by England.
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England
Dropped
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Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?
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Football
Soccer
Who I Am
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For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.
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I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne.
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Suits
Wayne
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Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.
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Step Up
Steps
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He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)
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England
Littles
Slippery
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You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.
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Bigs
Clubs
Flattered
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I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.
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Contracts
My Future
Want
Contract
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Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.
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Messi
Player
Zidane
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If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.
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Bird
Saws
Ugly
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At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.
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Finals
Football
Speed
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So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?
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Character
Football
Want
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There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.
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Football
Player
Soccer
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Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.
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Football
Player
Soccer
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Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.
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Clubs
Taken
Years
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I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
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High Standards
Knows
Standards
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I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
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High Standards
Standards
Myself Always Know
Pitch
Season
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It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.
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Matter
Needs
Senior
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It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson)
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Coming Out
England
Player
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Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.
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Finals
Want
World
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You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.
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Behind You
Games
Next
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Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.
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Men
Doubt
Pace
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I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)
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Doe
England
Leaving
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Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.
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Clubs
Taken
Years
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There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.
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Defeat
Denmark
Games
Hangover
Player
Your Mind Game
Bad Game
Somewhere
Mind Your Game
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I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here. (on Sir Alex Ferguson)
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Alex
Done
Ferguson
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If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.
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Believe
Football
Racist
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People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.
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Belly
Night
Reality
Thinking
Toss
Windsor
Lower
Park
Snake
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For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.
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Football
Games
Taken
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You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
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Home
Fans
Medal
Media
Pressure
Winner
Putting
Tournament
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No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
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Bothered
England
Football
Games
Reality
Cocoon
How Much
How Much Money
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Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.
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Fashion
Football
Important
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There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.
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Sports
Doe
England
Responsibility
Blew
Disasters
Huge Responsibility
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Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves
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Bangs
Order
Player
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Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.
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Critics
Papers
Bang
Strike
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I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.
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Book
Reading
Thinking
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If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
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Different Ideas
English Football
Football
Ideas
Play
Good Football People
Downward
Spiral
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If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
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Animal
Hangover
Player
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Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.
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Believe
Brazil
Team
Winning
Years Ago
Beating
Inferior
Subconsciously
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If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
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Animal
Hangover
Player
Rectify
Wounded
Always Your Mind
Bad Game
Quick
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I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.
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Men
Don't Care
Looks
Play
Thinking
Change Man Look
People Say
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Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” - it'll be 40 yards away - “I'm going to hit it”. And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.
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Player
Training
Tree
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His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays. It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.
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Cliche
Player
Way
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In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.
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Quality
Looks
Player
Team
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I thought I would be at United for a couple of years, maybe three or four, and then go abroad somewhere. But I just fell in love with Manchester United. I fell in love with winning, fell in love with the history of the club and being part of it was something I could never have imagined.
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Couple
Winning
Years
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There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs in non-league. There comes a time in your career when the pennies got to drop, where you've got to understand decisionmaking at the right, poignant moments in the game. When to pass, when to dribble, when to shoot. Game-changing moments, can you be the guy that sits there and takes the responsibility. And the great players do.
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Guy
Player
Responsibility
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I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.
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Men
Player
Team
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