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My cousin Joe was just the coolest kid and I wanted to be like him. He had girls, could do whatever he wanted and he was a bricklayer, so I decided to do that. - Troy Deeney
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You can't be an athlete and doubt yourself. - Troy Deeney
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I'm genuinely a big softie, I put this front on, and I'm just a laid-back fool really. - Troy Deeney
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I still find it a bit surreal that Sir Elton John can call Troy Deeney from Chelmsley. It's quite entertaining but a bit surreal. - Troy Deeney
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As footballers that's what we do when it comes to bonuses. we don't sit there and go 'yeah can I get £20million as a bonus.' You have to sit down, 'how much money does the club make, what's their reported loss.' You have to sit and go through it all and go OK, this is what you take, we feel that we should get that if we do this. - Troy Deeney
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I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016. - Troy Deeney
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I grew up in pubs so my whole thing is 'the game happened,' people would go into the pub afterwards and discuss 'it should have been a penalty, he should have scored that.' - Troy Deeney
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It's perceived that money can take care of anything but in my experience it makes everything 15 times harder because you can't act 'normal' and you're not allowed to be vulnerable or weak but we all are. - Troy Deeney
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I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told. - Troy Deeney
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Back in the day you used to have a fight. You win, you lose, you get up and go home, dust yourself down. Social media made it so that if you lose a fight it is on camera, you are embarrassed and you are forced to react. - Troy Deeney
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Whenever I play against Arsenal - and this is just a personal thing - I go up and think 'let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.' - Troy Deeney
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When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person. - Troy Deeney
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If I scroll down my Instagram replies, the tenth one down features a racist emoji - which is not unusual. So I follow the protocol, which is to block the user and report the message under the category of 'hate speech and symbols.' Then I am told that an emoji with a monkey and a banana is not considered racist. - Troy Deeney
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Whenever you play against Fred - we certainly did it - you let him get it because he has to take three or four touches. He doesn't know how to do one or two touches. Anyone that watches his game, he gets it facing the wrong way, turns, turns, chops, chops and he'll give you the ball three or four times a game. - Troy Deeney
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At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view. - Troy Deeney
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My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up. - Troy Deeney
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Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues. - Troy Deeney
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I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do. - Troy Deeney
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To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that. - Troy Deeney
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There's no loyalty in football and you take it with a pinch of salt. - Troy Deeney
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People always say to me, 'It must be so much pressure and so difficult playing out there in front of 60,000 people.' I always say, 'No, not really.' Playing football and earning great money isn't difficult. Working three jobs and raising kids alone, which is what my Mum did. That's difficult. - Troy Deeney
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When I was 15, Aston Villa offered me a trial for four days. In those days, I was more interested in making mischief and I didn't even turn up until the fourth day and then they sent me packing because they said I wasn't dedicated enough. - Troy Deeney
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