Gary Lineker - The World Cup is every four years, so it's...

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

Biography

Author Profession: Athlete

Nationality: English

Born: November 30, 1960

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David Beckham, David Icke, Eddie Hall, Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling, Reiss Nelson, Brian Clough, Tammy Abraham

Topics

Cup, Every, Four, Going, Perennial, Problem, World, World Cup, Years

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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

You Struggle Think True

Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

Football You Fall News

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

Time You Please Everyone Everyone

This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.

Stand Goalkeeper Trying More

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Sports Simple Football Men

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

Money You Chance Top

I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

Ups And Downs Moody Big Ups

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

Life Day Football You

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

Alone Confidence Competition World

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

Job Free Only Saturday

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

Good Black Look Think

The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

Country Some Young Happening

I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

Think Just I Think Delete

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

You People Colors Skin

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