Jamie Vardy Quotes

Jamie Vardy

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 11, 1987

There is only one thing I want to do here, and that is play football to the best of my ability. If I let things start distracting me, I'm not going to be able to do that, which will jeopardise the team as well.

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I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

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Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.

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When you are moulding 30 an hour, it takes its toll on your body. It got to the point where my back was just hanging off. It was time to say, 'I can't do this any more'.

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You hear players in the past say that it's just a job for them, but for me, it is nothing like that. I literally wish I could play football every day.

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It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.

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On a real course, I'd probably want to throw my club in the water if I hit a duff shot. I'll give golf a miss - it's definitely not my sport.

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When I lived in Hungerford, it was wake up 5:30 A.M., get to the van at 6 A.M. with eight other blokes, drive to Shinfield, which is in Reading, 45 minutes away. Start at 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. with two half-hour breaks and then home. Train Tuesday and Thursday and then play on Saturday.

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There's a lot of people blocked on my Twitter for various reasons which I don't need to get into.

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When training and matches are finished, we'll all go out and have food together; we're always in touch with each other.

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Everyone works hard for each other, and if we're having an off day, everyone else is there to pick things up.

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I don't really leave the house. Literally, I train, come home, look after the kids, the dogs, my missus... then it's time to go to bed.

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You do get a chance to think about things when you're at home, but that is when you want to relax and forget about football for a bit. Honestly, you don't really get time to stop and think about things. We have a job to do. That is all we concentrate on, going game by game.

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People keep asking me if I'm watching our rivals' games in the Premier League, but I'm usually on my PlayStation. If I had been watching, it would have been on an illegal stream, so I don't even know why they are asking me.

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When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!

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Moving to Fleetwood was a shock to the system at first. I'd never been at a full-time club.

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No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager's plans.

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The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my kids type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's horrible.

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I like a drink and enjoy being Jack the Lad. I've had a few scraps and spent a night in a cell.

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