Troy Deeney Quotes

Troy Deeney

Profession : Footballer

Birth : June 29, 1988

My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.

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People always say to me, 'It must be so much pressure and so difficult playing out there in front of 60,000 people.' I always say, 'No, not really.' Playing football and earning great money isn't difficult. Working three jobs and raising kids alone, which is what my Mum did. That's difficult.

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My cousin Joe was just the coolest kid and I wanted to be like him. He had girls, could do whatever he wanted and he was a bricklayer, so I decided to do that.

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I loved watching Arsenal, my son's an Arsenal fan.

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Whenever I play against Arsenal - and this is just a personal thing - I go up and think 'let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.'

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If I scroll down my Instagram replies, the tenth one down features a racist emoji - which is not unusual. So I follow the protocol, which is to block the user and report the message under the category of 'hate speech and symbols.' Then I am told that an emoji with a monkey and a banana is not considered racist.

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There's much more to life than football.

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I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do.

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To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

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None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.

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I remember a life before social media. I remember phone boxes, that's what I grew up on.

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I just got a lot of expectations and pressure on me, but it is what it is. I've got the best job in the world, I work two or three hours a day and get paid handsomely for it.

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I still find it a bit surreal that Sir Elton John can call Troy Deeney from Chelmsley. It's quite entertaining but a bit surreal.

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I don't mind women's football. I am of the business understanding though, when people say 'it should be equal pay.' If the business makes sense, it does.

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How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.

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As footballers that's what we do when it comes to bonuses. we don't sit there and go 'yeah can I get £20million as a bonus.' You have to sit down, 'how much money does the club make, what's their reported loss.' You have to sit and go through it all and go OK, this is what you take, we feel that we should get that if we do this.

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I work harder than 90% of people.

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Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.

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I play for Watford, it's not the biggest team in the Premier League, but I go to Antigua, I go to different countries and people go 'you're Troy Deeney.'

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I enjoy those physical battles and I've been on record saying Virgil van Dijk is the best defender in the world.

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