Andrea Pirlo Quotes

#1. In this life, you're either a man or an actor, there's nothing in between.

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#2. There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

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#3. It's an enemy that I can't allow to wound me a second time. It's already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface.

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#4. All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, team-mate scores. It's called an assist and it's my way of spreading happiness.

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#5. British teams bring me good luck.

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#6. I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.

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#7. I'll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cling to my feet forever, trying to pull me down. Even now if I mess up a pass, that malign force could be to blame. For that reason, I steer well clear of the DVD from the Liverpool game.

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#8. I don't feel pressure ... I don't give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

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#9. The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

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#10. After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

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#11. Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.

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#12. If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he's in with a shout of the Ballon d'Or. But when it's a defender who slips up, it's a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.

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#13. I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I'm disgusting. I can't play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.

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#14. I don't give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup.

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