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Michael Owen
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If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron.
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If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don’t see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.
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I’ve always been a player that likes to get round the back and get crosses in for other people. When I first burst on to the scene some people only saw the goals I was scoring. More recently they’ve taken notice of the goals I’ve set up. It is nice to be recognized for that.
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An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon – speed.
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When you put better teams in front of you, that’s when the big players rise to that occasion.
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To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you’re not performing, you’ve got to be angry with yourself.
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I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I’m not now, so I’ve lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn’t need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.
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