Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year:… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought'… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
