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I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.
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Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.
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I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
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Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.


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I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.


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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.


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Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.
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When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.


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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
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When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.


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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
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