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It's hard to know when to call it a day as a footballer.
Diego Forlan
Day
Footballer
Know
Call
Hard
When you are a footballer, you eat, sleep, and breathe football. If I have a bad training session, I can go home and do whatever I want, but you still feel an emptiness.
Divock Origi
Home
You
Training
Whatever
Bad
Eat
Football
Feel
Footballer
Emptiness
Still
Go
Go Home
Want
Breathe
Session
Sleep
A footballer must be prepared to be welcomed when all is well and to receive criticism when things are not working out. Of course, it is not easy nor pleasant to hear negative things about you.
Edinson Cavani
You
Negative
Criticism
Pleasant
Out
Must
Easy
Be Prepared
About
Footballer
Welcomed
Well
Course
Hear
Nor
Working
Prepared
Things
Receive
I'll always thank all of the teams I played for from the bottom of my heart because they all helped me grow as a person and a footballer, but the three years I spent in Naples were fantastic. That city gave me everything - my name, maturity, and international recognition. I get very emotional when Naples is mentioned.
Edinson Cavani
Me
Heart
Maturity
Three
Gave
Everything
Spent
Recognition
City
Mentioned
Emotional
Bottom
Footballer
Name
Naples
Because
Always
Were
Years
Very
Thank
Person
Get
Fantastic
Helped
International
Teams
Grow
Played
As a footballer, I know I am a role model for a lot of African kids, and I want to make a direct impact on their lives.
Emmanuel Adebayor
Kids
Impact
Direct
Footballer
Know
Make
Am
Lot
Model
Role
Role Model
African
Want
Lives
All I can say is I am a footballer, and if a club like Milan are interested in me, then I cannot lie to you: I am happy, because it is Milan.
Emmanuel Adebayor
Me
You
Happy
Lie
Club
Say
Footballer
Like
Because
Am
Cannot
Interested
Then
Milan
I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.
Essam El Hadary
Long
Top
Stay
Able
Footballer
Make
Am
Doing
Contribution
Professional
When I went to Real Madrid, I was only 18 or 19 years old. It was my first year as a professional footballer. I was very young.
Fabinho
Old
First
Year
Young
Madrid
Only
Footballer
Real
Years
Real Madrid
Very
Professional
Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.
Fernandinho
Trust
Important
Having
Footballer
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Manager
The Most Important
Your
Thing
A footballer's career is very short, and I want to finish it in a strong and spectacular way.
Filipe Luis
Strong
Way
Finish
Footballer
Very
Short
Want
Spectacular
Career
He was always brilliant, but when Pep Guardiola started to use him as a 'false' No. 9, he got even better. It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.
Frank Rijkaard
Better
Impossible
Brilliant
Pep
More
He
Footballer
Him
Messi
Always
Got
False
Than
Use
Even
Started
The evolution of football has seen a reduction in the space between the teams. It is therefore important for the modern footballer to react and be quicker than in the past, because there is more happening in the restricted space.
Frank Rijkaard
Space
Seen
Important
Past
Evolution
Restricted
More
Football
Footballer
Between
React
Because
Reduction
Quicker
Than
Modern
Happening
In The Past
Therefore
Teams
My thoughts on Balotelli? He's the kind of player who infuriates me. I was not born a footballer like him. I achieved what I did because of all the hard work I put in. I had to make sacrifices.
Gabriel Batistuta
Work
Hard Work
Me
Thoughts
Kind
Born
Had
Sacrifices
He
Put
Footballer
Like
Make
Him
Because
Did
Achieved
Hard
Who
Player
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
Gareth Bale
Best
You
World
Become
Brazil
Think
Kid
Dream
Pretend
Would
About
Football
Footballer
Like
Obviously
Him
Trying
Just
Being
Anything
Professional
Play
Play Football
Watch
Players
Playground
I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
Gary Lineker
Buy
Somebody
Nights
Out
See
Week
Footballer
Check
Him
Go
Going
Six
Want
Reserves
Watch
Playing
In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
Gary Lineker
Best
Day
Three
Footballer
Years
Two
Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
Gary Neville
Time
Will
Down
See
All-Time
He
Footballer
League
Most
Him
Go
His
Anyone
After
Cannot
Title
Successful
Ever
Brink
British
I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'
George Best
Beatles
Long
Hair
First
Too
Long Hair
Beatle
Footballer
Also
Got
How
Coming
Were
Up
Fifth
Peak
Nickname
Career
Of course I would have liked to have played at the World Cup, but I achieved so much in my career as a footballer that I can't have any complaints.
George Weah
World
Complaints
Would
Footballer
Liked
Course
Cup
Any
Achieved
Much
World Cup
Played
Career
I always said in my career as a footballer, I owe everything to Newell's. But as a coach, I owe everything to Paraguay.
Gerardo Martino
Everything
Footballer
Said
Always
Owe
Coach
Career
Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.
Gianluigi Buffon
Me
Car
Only
Footballer
Around
Gets
Maybe
Interested
Who
The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the top.
Giovani Dos Santos
Work
World
Every
Top
Dream
Footballer
Reach
Cup
Train
World Cup
Why
I can remember playing for Carlisle and just running around like a headless chicken telling the others boys not to worry, that I'd do their running for them. I was just so eager and so keen and desperate to be a footballer that I did that.
Glenn Murray
Remember
Desperate
Others
Worry
Telling
Running
Footballer
Like
Around
Boy
Chicken
Did
Just
Them
Keen
Eager
Playing
When Carlisle released me, I felt as though the dream of being a footballer was over.
Glenn Murray
Me
Released
Though
Dream
Footballer
Over
Felt
Being
But the concept that it's important to understand the individual and the person, as well as the footballer, is a helpful concept, regardless of the competition.
Graham Potter
Competition
Important
Individual
Footballer
Concept
Well
Understand
Person
Regardless
Helpful
If you can have a career as a footballer for 13 years then you're really lucky, but there will probably be plenty of supporters up and down the country saying that I wasn't a top player, to put it kindly. That's for sure.
Graham Potter
Saying
You
Will
Country
Down
Top
Plenty
Kindly
Put
Footballer
Supporters
Sure
Years
Up
Up And Down
Then
Really
Lucky
Player
Career
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