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Dwight Yorke

(1971) Association Football Player

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Dwight Yorke is an association football player, best known for Born to Score.

Quick Facts About Dwight Yorke

Born: November 3, 1971
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: Born to Score

About Dwight Yorke

Dwight Eversley Yorke CM is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian professional football coach and former player and former head coach of Trinidad and Tobago. Throughout his club career, he played for Aston Villa, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney FC and Sunderland, mainly as a forward, between 1989 and 2009. Yorke formed a prolific strike partnership with Andy Cole at Manchester United, where he won numerous honours including several Premier League titles and the Treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999. Yorke scored 123 goals in the Premier League, a record for a non-European which was not broken until Sergio Agüero in 2017.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Dwight Yorke

My first three years at United were pretty much flawless. In the first we won the treble and I finished top scorer:…

Back

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Football is a global sport and black players have contributed to the global sport for a number of years.

Black

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If you are on the front foot playing attacking football and you want to score goals, that is what people want to…

Football

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You've got to embrace those times as a professional player very seriously, because it will come to an end.

Come

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I used to play football on the streets, kicking breadfruits or oranges.

Football

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Look to the Premier League. Are there any black managers? Look at the Italian league? Are there any black managers? The list…

Any

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People like myself, who have good credibility in the game and played at the very top level, you'd think would get a…

Credibility

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But would I give up the women and nights out for another year at United? Would that make me happy? Would that…

Another year

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But to have to have the opportunity to travel to all of these countries, drink some nice wine, see the other side…

Culture

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Despite all my experience of being a player, I've never had the experience of being a manager which is a different concept…

Being

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The game is not over until it is.

Football

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To be a part of the history with the Manchester United club is a huge moment.

Club

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It's often been discussed, no-one has really taken it up, but I do have a tendency when I speak to everybody, certainly…

Black

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Everybody can go out and buy fancy things and, while I don't have a problem with that, I do think players should…

Big

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I've done all the coaching badges at St George's and the one thing I find very difficult, let alone get a job,…

Alone

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When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems…

Best players

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Yes, I've done a lot of things in life, but I've also achieved a lot, I've won trophies. When I was at…

Anything

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I still love my dad and appreciate what he's done for me, but I despise some of the things he has done…

Dad

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Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it

Balls

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Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United

Gary

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I don't even remember half the places I've been, but it's been a nice journey. I enjoy traveling.

Enjoy

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What do I like about Spurs? The flairness

Funny

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I see managers with my own eyes walking out of jobs and then walking into jobs, getting sacked and then walking back…

Back

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I remember when we were playing Liverpool away from home and we recorded one shot in the whole match. That's not Man…

Go

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It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney

Balls

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