Craig Bellamy Quotes

All I want to do now is prove my temperament is not a problem and get people talking about my football again.
As a professional, you're taught from a young age to despise losing. But I began to accept that, in football, you will win some games, and you will lose some games, with draws here and there, too. That's just the nature of the game.
Basically, we are all chimps. The human side is at the front of our forehead, but the chimp is the part that lashes out. When I play, I am completely chimp-orientated.
Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.
Being Welsh means you sometimes get exposed to international football earlier. Again, that helps player development, speeds up their thought process in a different kind of environment.
Certain players need twice the recovery time of others because they run much more - not because they put in more effort but because they're playing different positions.
David Brooks - every time I see him, I like him. He breaks lines, runs beyond, and I like him a lot.
First and foremost, I am concentrating on staying fit. If I'm fit, I can challenge. If I ain't fit, I can't challenge.
Football - a simple game really, yet generally, in the game, we make the simple things seem harder. But it's those simple things that get you to the top.
Football is about so much more than talent.
Glasgow was a tough city. You were adored, and you were hated.
I always say the best players I have ever worked with are the hardest players I have ever worked with.
I am reading the biography of Pep Guardiola. I find it really interesting.
I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.
I can understand a bad pass or something like that; I don't get irate. But the one thing I can never accept is a lack of work rate. You have to be able to give everything you have.
I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.
I did get myself into little scrapes when I was younger and a bit stupid, but there is only one manager I have worked under who ever spoke a bad word about me.
I do have to pinch myself at times when I look back at some of the things I have achieved. I really do.
I don't like the Italian approach. I don't want to be involved in that kind of football.
I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.
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