Frank Lampard Quotes
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But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.
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In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
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I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.
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When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?
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Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years
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I come from a football family which has really helped.
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I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
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Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.
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In terms of not retiring? I don't want to leave and think to myself, "Maybe I should have stayed a bit longer". I'm dwelling on it. I have turned down a few Premier League offers. But the fact is, after being at Chelsea for so long and a year with Manchester City, I don't want to get involved in a relegation dogfight.
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Being faster would probably make me better at football.
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I loved being in America. It was a great experience. People will be drawn to China because of the money but the lifestyle, everything about America, I couldn't recommend it enough.
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I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
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I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".
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I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.
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Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.
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I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.
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There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.
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I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.
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I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.
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I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.
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People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.
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In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.
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Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
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I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.
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I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.
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I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.
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A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.
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When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.
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Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...
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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.
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