Troy Deeney Quotes

Troy Deeney

Profession : Footballer

Birth : June 29, 1988

When I talk about it, now people imagine I had an impoverished childhood, especially when I tell people we used to have to put coins in the side of the telly. But we were really happy. Mum never complained, there was always music playing in the house and we were always dancing around. It was a great childhood.

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Whoever you are, it is nice to treat your parents to stuff.

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The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.

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At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.

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Dad was involved in a lot of crime and the police were regularly coming to our door looking for him. From the age of three he always made sure I had a football and he'd make me play with much bigger kids. But he'd tell them, 'Kick him and if he moans he'll come in.' So I got taught to grow up very quickly.

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We're all humans - people make mistakes.

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I grew up in pubs so my whole thing is 'the game happened,' people would go into the pub afterwards and discuss 'it should have been a penalty, he should have scored that.'

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There's no loyalty in football and you take it with a pinch of salt.

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People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.

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We're trying to be real in a fake world. How does that work? You're always going to lose. I just be me.

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I'm a big boy with big shoulders and I've had some real world issues so getting some stick online doesn't bother me.

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I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.

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I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016.

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Prison gives you time to reflect.

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The Sun is a massive paper and I understand the roles and responsibilities that go with that. I want to add something unique and give a different perspective, not only on sport but many areas.

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Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.

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There's so much negativity over this issue of dual nationality - nearly always from people who don't have mixed family backgrounds and don't understand that it's perfectly natural for those of us who do, to feel loyalty to more than one country.

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It would have been great to play for England but it is not something I have lost sleep over.

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Players never want to lose football matches.

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