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Heading is a skill, and it would be a shame to lose that from the game. There is nothing more dramatic than when you see someone score a diving header, for instance.
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It was only when I got to Tottenham as a youth player that they said, 'You need to be good in the air.' It was made clear I was going be a target man, so I had to start working on my technique.
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I came from a good family and a nice area, but I went to a rough state school.
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When I started out, nobody told you how to do an interview. That's how I ended up on the front page of a newspaper dressed as Rodney Trotter with a Reliant Robin.
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The death of Cyrille Regis, a giant in so many ways, was such a shock and deeply upsetting.
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In my opinion, whenever I've been given the opportunity to play, I've done well and scored goals, and that will continue to be the case.
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When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.
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At first, I was overwhelmed at moving up to international level, but the England lads are top class at making you feel welcome.
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I thrive on quick players getting to the byline and sending over crosses. I just have to be quick enough to get on the end of things. In that regard, my job has always been the same, but if we have more wide, quick players, that can only be good for me.
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I've never been renowned for electric pace. It doesn't seem to have held me back.
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It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.
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I'd hate to be the sort of player who people just regard as being tall and only good for winning headers.
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I've always felt comfortable on the ball, and I don't know why people are so surprised when you can control it well. It's not a disability. It's just that I'm a bit taller than everyone else.
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There is one thing that I would really enjoy, and that is, of course, to get 100 Premier League goals.
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I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.
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I don't know why, but playing for England, I always feel I am going to score.
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I do a fantastic job for a living: I get to play in front of 90,000, and obviously, everyone knows your name and what have you. But I'm no better than anyone else.
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I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score.
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As for my personal ambitions, I always loved playing for England and always felt I did well.
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The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.
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Some people have never fancied me, but there have been plenty others who have backed me.
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I've never asked for a transfer anywhere, but I've been constantly moving around. It's frustrating.
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I can keep the ball and pass it, and I've always felt comfortable with the ball at my feet.
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Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!
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I don't think I was ready for the Premier League until I was 24 at Southampton.
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When some kids get a sniff of the first team at a big club, you see them change. They can become big-time, especially so if they happen to be captain of the youth team.
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I know I can play, but people who haven't seen me and look at me on a football pitch think, 'He's tall, and he's there to head the ball.'
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Looking around at the faces of the home support at Gillingham, the irony was never lost on me that these people had the cheek to call me a 'freak.' Perhaps they should have taken a look at themselves first.
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If you go from being a kid at school to being on £60,000 a week, that can be hard to deal with. I didn't have that, and maybe that's kept me a bit more grounded than some players.
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I've played for England; I've been lucky enough to do this for a long time. So why can't you do it with a smile on your face?
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I think it's helped me that I've always been very grounded, very down to earth. Lots of my friends are people I've known from school, and when I'm away from football, they're the ones who I knock about with.
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I'm very aware that you lead a very peculiar existence as a professional footballer, being flown everywhere first-class and never having to queue up for anything. Of course, that's attractive, but if you're not careful, you end up living in a world where nothing is really real.
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People tend to assume I was terribly self-conscious about my height. In fact, I've always been perfectly comfortable with the way I am. And if anyone gave me any stick, they soon found I was quite capable of giving it back.
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If you're different in any way at school,then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.
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Because of how I looked, there was definitely a prejudice against me. People didn't think I could play. I could see why: I weighed about eight stone and was six foot bleeding seven.
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I once walked out of a nightclub with my team-mates to see our star midfielder reclining across the bonnet of a Ferrari, arms folded, waiting for girls to come out so he could wink at them and then progress it from there. I have no idea how long he'd been waiting. I do know it wasn't even his Ferrari.
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