” I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn’t think I wanted to become a pro. “
” Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager. “
” It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: ‘OK, they’re going to go into management.’ Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players. “
” I just played football from an early age and didn’t get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating – I’d like to have skated more, because it’s so physical. Ten minutes on the ice and you really feel it in your back. “
” In Holland you go into amateur teams, come up through the ranks and are generally spotted for senior or professional football. At 16, I had made it into a men’s amateur team, and was picked up professionally from there. “
” If I hadn’t made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was progressing at football because you never know at that stage if you are going to be there for sure. “
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