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People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

There are hundreds and hundreds of women who are married to footballers, and we get to see a very small handful of them. They are all different individuals, and they choose the way they want to live their life or look, and I don't think it is really fair on anyone else to judge.

Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be injured. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.