It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
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If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.
Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.
You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.
I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
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