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I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

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A Boyhood Sporting Hero

Most boys have their sporting heroes and mine played Gaelic Football
The mighty Mick O Connell the greatest I recall
But Mick O played for Kerry and Cork my favourite team
And to play football good as him was many school boy's dream

The finest Gaelic Footballer that I have ever seen
Not rough or hard in any way but classical and clean
And though that was many years ago and far so far away
Of great player from Valentia the memory with me stay.

When Mick O's playing days were over he faded from the scene
But memories of his playing feats will remain evergreen
His high fielding and kicking and his passing of the ball
The complete Gaelic Footballer the greatest of them all.

He never hogged the limelight he seemed so quiet and shy
But he was sporting hero to many school going boy
And even many who did not support Kerry will still tell you today
That Valentia's Mick O Connell was the best they had seen play.

My hero played for Kerry and Cork my favourite team
And to be good a player as him an early teenage dream
But as a Gaelic Footballer I never made the grade
And I won't be remembered for any game I played.

poem by Francis Duggan
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There is pressure every day as a footballer.

quote by Jamie Redknapp
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Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

quote by Eric Cantona
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I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

quote by Dylan Moran
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Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

quote by Craig Johnston
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A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

quote by John B. Keane
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Don't want to work in a factory

And what do you want to be
when you are older young lad?
me Sir, I want to be a footballer
or a Brickie just like my Dad.
And if not a great footballer
or a Bricklayer on building sites
I'd like to be a top wrestler
or a boxer who wins all his fights.
But I'd love to be a famous film star
and see my name up there in lights
because I'd hate to work in a factory
on a machine and doing nights.
So as you can see mister teacher
I'm not sure what I want to do
but hang on I really love animals
so I'd be a vet or work in a zoo.
Now I bet your all saying
I wonder what profession
did he finally choose?
was it a life in Hollywood movies
or did he play soccer for the Sky Blues?
Well, I never got to work with animals
and got knocked out in my first fight
failed all of my theatre auditions
too nervous called it stage fright.
Had a trial for Manchester United
but told I was not good enough
so I tried my hand at Wrestling
too skinny they said need to be big and tough.
So I never became a movie heart throb
and alas the sports world never ever knew me
all those childhood dreams never happened
so here I am working in a bloody factory!

poem by Kevin Halls
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Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

quote by Bobby Charlton
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As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

quote by Ryan Giggs
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Tim Kennelly

A mighty Gaelic Footballer he inspired the bards to rhyme
He played centre half back for Kerry when he was in his prime
A stalwart of the Listowel Emmetts a famous Gaelic Football Club
And in the Town of listowel he owned a well known pub.

His name was Tim Kennelly one of the Kingdom's best
And he was not found wanting when he was put to the test
But he did not live to be an old man to grow stooped and old and gray
In his very early fifties the great man passed away.

With the greats of Gaelic Football he is surely one to rate
The Listowel Emmetts Clubman was a Kerry G A A great
For Listowel Emmetts and for Kerry he played many a marvellous game
And his name destined to live on in Gaelic Football's Hall Of Fame.

His son Tadgh is a star of Aussie Rules Football for the Sydney Swans Today
And though the mighty Tim Kennelly in eternal rest now lay
He will always be remembered as a Gaelic Footballer supreme
Who won five All Irelands with a famous Kerry team.

poem by Francis Duggan
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I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

quote by Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Nicky Winmar

A champion footballer
his lasting legacy
was his stand
against the onslaught
of racial abuse
from spectators
the great aboriginal hero
pulled up his St.Kilda jumper
proudly pointing to his skin
and stopped the nation.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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Love without sex - sex without love

Sanitize your dirty thoughts the filth on your mind
I might not want you beside me entwined
I'm not the maid - called to her master's ring,
I'm savvy and smart, and deserve better bling!

The footballer's wife, I'm not, I'm smarter by a lot
And, I major in what others have got.
And I have not! So don't take me for a fool…
Take me to the nearest jewelers and make me drool.

poem by Mark Heathcote
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Dribbled

This world is dribbled like a footballer!
And some stories are not well told;
This world is driven like a racing car!
And some stories are better left untold;
But i will always have my bread and water,
And be ready to say, 'L'Chai-Shalom'!

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

quote by Paul Gascoigne
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A piece of white flannel about cricket

Sport is popular. Fine.

Sport attracts sponsorship. Fine.

Sport becomes showbusiness. mmm.

'Pietersen embraced Collingwood on his century
like a footballer'..

I say, old chap, that's just...not cricket...

poem by Michael Shepherd
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Your Heart is Cold [ for sake of rhyme]

Your heart is cold,
Honey did you drink coke?
I've had my heart sold,
How much can you pay?
I can get it back for your sake.
No one else can feel this
But I love you miss
Baby you just have to trust me
I can't be a player,
And you know I'm no footballer
I just want to be your lover
No matter the weather
Good or bad
With you will I stand.
Never will I leave your side
Whatever the price.

poem by Efe Benjamin
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As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

quote by Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Black And White To A Call

Desire to know you,
Black and white to a call;
Desire to know you,
And like the charity of your muse;
But the mind of the poet is like Tanzania in Africa!
And true love doesn't ask why.
The tongue of the writer and the love of the reader,
The realities of Mama Africa will be noted to all mankind;
And like a goal being scored by a footballer!