Gary Lineker Quotes (1960-)


About Gary Lineker

Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November, 1960 in Leicester) is a former English international footballer, playing as a striker for Leicester City, Everton, FC Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, and Nagoya Grampus Eight. Since then, he has developed a career as a sports broadcaster for BBC Television.

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“I always score one against the Germans.”
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“The best place to watch Wimbledon F.C. is teletext. As you can tell, I dislike Wimbledon. Hate them, even.”
“Football is a simple game, twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
Gary Lineker
“There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I'm out of order?”
“(in the build-up to the France-Portugal semi final at the 2006 World Cup) "This is the BBC and we will be completely impartial, so allez les bleus. With me tonight holding their lucky coqs sportifs under the desk are..."”

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Gary Lineker on Germany

“Football is a simple game. 22 men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at the end, the Germans win.”
Gary Lineker

About Gary Lineker

Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November, 1960 in Leicester) is a former English international footballer, playing as a striker for Leicester City, Everton, FC Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, and Nagoya Grampus Eight. Since then, he has developed a career as a sports broadcaster for BBC Television.