"My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try."
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"52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000."
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"I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player."
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"This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams."
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"All I know of morality I learned from football"
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"I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me."
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"If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place."
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"Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks."
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"Guys are faster, they're bigger and they're stronger. I think that's probably the main thing. And that's not just in football, I think it's in every sport."
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"Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition."
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"High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere."
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"If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick."
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"United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on a tragic and triumphant journey into Europe, but no orchestrated event could conjure the celebrations ignited by last night's outstanding obliteration of Roma or deliver a more fitting tribute."
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"Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)"
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"The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone."
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"I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it."
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"I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist."
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"In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen."
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"No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game."
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"I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans."
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