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“I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.”

Years Has Beens Fighting Football Taught Tough Areas Seven Locals League Seven Years Manchester Lad Formative Years

Author:Gary Neville

“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.”

Men Littles Stories Age Space Half Break Cutting Written Football Speech Paper Six Pages Sticks Seven Edges Eight Squares Bubbles Sheets Spy Folds

Author:Ian Rankin

“I played football for seven years in Spain and was called everything because I was from South America, and I never went out crying like a baby, like Patrice Evra, saying that someone had said something to me.”

Years Said America Cry Football Baby South Seven Spain Seven Years South America

Author:Gus Poyet

“I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.”

People I Can Football Ten Six Criticism Seven Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Martin Jol

“The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.”

Five Football Seven Yards Incidents Commentators Referee

Author:Peter Drury

“For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.”

World Children Different Winning Roles Five Player Football Six Models Seven Treasure Around The World League Role Models Messi Incomparable

Author:Johan Cruijff

“The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.”

Years Games Team Television Football Seven Spending Nfl Grandmother Sunday Afternoon Uncles My Grandmother Seven Years Hooked Spending Time Sunday Afternoons Redskins

Author:Michael Vick

“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”

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Author:Berti Vogts

“Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ . . . ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match.”

“There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.”

Firsts Said Book Mother Party Boys Football Tables Seven Organized Hats Cake Candle Trifles Spaceships Jelly Icing Birthday Cake Bakeries

Book:The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel