Patrick Bamford Quotes

Patrick Bamford

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 5, 1993

If you are doing well, then your name is always bandied about.

Patrick Bamford

No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.

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I've always believed that when I play up front and once I've scored, then I keep scoring.

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It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.

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Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

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I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

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After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'

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I got a phone call from David Moyes: he was interested in me going out to Real Sociedad, and I was quite keen on the idea if I didn't get the Premier League club that I wanted. Going abroad appealed to me.

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In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

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When I decided to move to Chelsea, I got a bit of stick at the time, but I didn't move just because of the money or just because it was a big club. I moved there because I wanted to play for them.

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I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.

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I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

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I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.

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I went home every night wondering how to get in the Burnley team. It was, 'You've been brought up nicely, had everything handed to you.' Is that what people think just because I went to private school and played instruments?

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My parents never let me have everything.

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If I started something, I had to finish. Like with violin. I started when I was seven only because my best mate wanted to. I hated it and wanted to quit, but Dad made me continue, and I got to grade seven. My parents said I had to know the value of stuff and work for stuff.

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Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

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Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.

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Sometimes you have to take the opportunity when it comes because it might not come again. That's what my thoughts were when I went to Chelsea.

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Playing on the right isn't a role I prefer, but sometimes you've got to do your job for the team.

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