Emile Heskey Quotes

Emile Heskey

Profession : Footballer

Birth : January 11, 1978

I was lucky enough. I won four League Cups, FA Cup, UEFA Cup, Super Cup and two Charity Shields. I went to two World Cups and two Euros.

Emile Heskey

I was lucky enough to have Tony Cottee when I was at Leicester, who was a senior pro at the time and would give me advice on certain things and it does help.

Emile Heskey

I always wanted to play abroad, but Ill admit I didnt think it would be Australia.

Emile Heskey

Its easy to underestimate how much scrutiny players are under in England. Look at someone like Wayne Rooney - having to deal with it since he was 16.

Emile Heskey

Do your badges everyone tells me. Yeah, but badges wont get you a job. You could have the most educated coach sitting at home, you still have to be given the opportunity. And I know a lot of people arent getting those opportunities. Which is sad.

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Football is about the team winning the game, it doesnt matter who scores, its who has won after 90 minutes, its 11 against 11. Players understand that.

Emile Heskey

Robbie Fowler contacted me and said there were some very good players in the A-League while Michael Bridges spoke in glowing terms of this growing League. After finally speaking to Dwight Yorke, I decided to accept Newcastle Jets' two year offer.

Emile Heskey

Critically, you have to remain positive and know you will recover, remembering if you didn't suffer injuries, you'd be a pretty remarkable competitor in any sport.

Emile Heskey

Every striker wants to score more goals but as a target man I've always taken great delight in bringing other players into the game.

Emile Heskey

At Liverpool and England I formed a great partnership with Michael Owen who played off me with great success and in more recent times Wayne Rooney carried out a similar role.

Emile Heskey

My childhood was spent in a poorish neighbourhood in Leicester so that makes you cherish money more than if youd had a lot.

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You always compare yourself, on the pitch or in general life, and you can always learn. Youve obviously got to do a bit of studying yourself as well.

Emile Heskey

I do media work and have some investments.

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Ive never been one for having a huge number of fast cars. The fastest one I ever had was a Porsche 911 and I never really drove it.

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Id done a bit of coaching towards the end of my playing career, working with the U-21s at Bolton, but here I have the opportunity to get involved a lot more, working with individual players and looking at different tactics.

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After 20-plus years of looking purely from an individuals point of view as a player, now I have to look at it from a coachs perspective, getting into players heads, delivering my message in the right way so that what I'm telling them ends up getting translated out on the pitch.

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Growing up, playing in a World Cup, scoring in a World Cup, is what you dream about.

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After playing 21 years in football its difficult to just do nothing, so Im just trying to keep as busy as possible.

Emile Heskey

At the end of the day a player has to show willingness to actually want to play for the club, and want to play for the team.

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And for me, you get the best out of yourself when the pressure is on. You want to play in cup finals and important games, those important games are the pressure games, because you have to win them.

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