Peter Crouch Quotes

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Peter Crouch

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 30, 1981

I've played for England; I've been lucky enough to do this for a long time. So why can't you do it with a smile on your face?

Peter Crouch

It's nice when you can enjoy yourself and make people smile.

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I did a paper round as a kid, but the early mornings were too much. My dad took it over, so I was getting paid 15 quid a week, but he was doing it!

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Des Bulpin discovered me and, along with my dad, would be the biggest influence on my career. I remember him telling me when I was 15 that Jermain Defoe and I would play together for England when we were older, and he hasn't been too far wrong.

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Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

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If you're good enough, you're old enough: that's what everyone says. When a talented young player emerges, his age doesn't matter; people want to see him in the team. So why, when you become older, is the assumption that you are no longer good enough?

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I wouldn't want to get my pigeon chest out in front of anyone. I don't think the world needs it. I'd probably get a yellow card anyway.

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I enjoy being different.

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Ronaldo, the Brazilian one - incredible player. I met him once. I was in Ibiza on holiday and quite by chance ran into him in a club. He's the only man I'd go up to and ask for a picture. And I did.

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I was a million miles from being a Premier League player. You see some people, at 18 they are ready. At 21, I wasn't. Physically nowhere near.

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I've always been surrounded by good people who rein me back in.

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I have really got into watching the unsigned bands. They play mad venues like the Sugarmill in Stoke and all sorts of underground, grimy places.

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I've been promoted, relegated, won big trophies, gone months without scoring, played for my country at World Cups, been bought, sold, loaned, and called 'a freak.'

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You should never get ahead of yourself car-wise; no Merc when you're still in the youth team, no Porsche unless you're a Premier League regular.

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Kevin Muscat scared me. You know, people would say 'I'm going to break your legs' - when he would say it, you genuinely believed him.

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The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.

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I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

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When I started out, nobody told you how to do an interview. That's how I ended up on the front page of a newspaper dressed as Rodney Trotter with a Reliant Robin.

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I've always felt that, when I play, I have never let anybody down.

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I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.

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