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Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

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

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

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