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"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
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"Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression."
"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to."
"At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back."
"So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed."
"When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself."
"So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence."
"But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling."
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