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I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: After Always Any Anything Area Checks Done Encouraged Football Footballers Generally Looked Made Make Safer Think Well Which I Think

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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: Always Around Away Been Copy Cups Day Definite England Interested Media Side Sit Things Think Travelled Used While World Would Wrote

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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: Blue Bob Came Certainly Fact Focus Football Got Had Helped High Job Left Out Profile Wilson Bbc

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World Cups can be career-defining.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: Cups World

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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: Back Conditions Cup Earned Element Envious Game Genuinely Look Looking Money Never Played Some Think Today Way Wish World World Cup

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Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: Affect Affects Anyone Bad Bad Day Badly Day Difference Different Different Things Exciting Football Go Goes Life Moods People Pitch Playing Presenting Really Similarities Things Totally Tv Week Well Whereas Whole You

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On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: Cup Gives How How Much Know Lines Matters Much Nobody Penalty Toss Tv Well World World Cup You Your

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That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: About Allowed Being Bit Career Finish Footballer Get Go Go Home Home Out Point Really Screamed Sick Then Thirty Time Train You Your

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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

~Gary Lineker

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I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: City Club Cried Cup Dad Eight Even Fans Few Final Friends Get Got Group Home Lose Played Promoted Seen Stump Them Up Watched Way Way Home Years

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Athlete

Born: November 30th, 1960

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