Kolo Toure Quotes

Kolo Toure

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 19, 1981

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

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Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that hard to accept. I advised him to come to Manchester City while I was still there.

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When you do a good tackle, or block, the Kop they really appreciate that and they let you know it.

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Whether I start or not, I will do whatever I can in whatever way to play my part.

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You need to be honest, even if you hurt people.

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As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.

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I'm a professional footballer and, to me, playing regularly is the most important thing; money is secondary.

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You cannot have a place in the team - even if you are an international - if you don't show what you can do in training.

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I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don't want to feed the controversy.

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I have never looked to put a spoke in anyone's wheel at all.

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Kieran Tierney's work rate is just amazing. He gives 100 percent in every game, he makes lots of runs and makes lots of assists too. He defends, he goes forward, he is every inch the modern left back.

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The only thing you can bring players in with is money or, if you are like Arsenal, you wait for your youngsters to come in, but that can take a while.

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When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

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It's not easy when you have to make a lot of changes.

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Sometimes people, not the players, play the game before it's started and that's a problem because there are no small teams in the Premiership.

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We are professional players and when we go out we want to play well and win.

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Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

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Baresi was not tall but he was a great player, while Cannavaro was the best defender in the world - hopefully I will be the same.

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I remember the best defenders were Baresi and Cannavaro - you don't have to be really tall.

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I want to talk to players, that is the way I am. That is what I bring. I will keep doing that, it doesn't matter what happens, anywhere I go.

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