 QUOTATIONS▪ Brooklyn's a really good footballer. He's better than I was at his age.
Well, my mum says he is, anyway. Even when he's got a load of toys, he always
goes for the football first... it'll be interesting to see how he turns out. I'd
love him to go into football.
▪ Sometimes I do wonder what I look like. Do I look OK? Have I got a double
chin?
▪ I've had a certain amount of abuse in my life... look at the sarong. To be
honest, it just goes to completely over my head.
▪ Even as a boy, I always tried to strike the ball properly. I have seen videos
of me when I was six or even doing just that.
▪ When I was young, I used to whack the free kicks. They'd go over the keepers's
head because they were so little.
▪ I've always had willpower. And I've always said that when my mates were down
the road, standing on the corner drinking cider, I was at home watching Mat of
The Day.
▪ Nothing ever distracted me from my football.
▪ Running has always been part of me. I was 1.500 metres Champions at school for
four years on the trot, and I used to do cross-country competitions which I
loved. In fact, I used to get more nervous doing those runs than I ever do
playing in front of 50.000 people.
▪ I think it's important to remove the idea that football is an exclusively male
domain. When I was at school, some of the girls were as good as the boys.
Getting girls involved might helo to remove some of the macho nonsense that mars
the game.
▪ I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have football. I always enjoy
drawing, so maybe I'd something in art. But football was always number ones.
▪ I dreamt a lot about football and a lot of those dreams came true for me.
▪ My mum and dad gave me all advice I needed. But in the end, they left the big
decision up to me - whether it was to (apprentice) with Manchester United, or to
stay in London and play for Tottenham or Arsenal. They never said "We support
Manchester United, so you're going up there". I think that was important,
because if you're pushed into something, you go the other way.
▪ Sir Bobby Charlton said I was the best eleven year old he'd seen in the six
years of running his school.
▪ My belief is practice makes perfect. If I didn't practice, I suppose I
wouldn't be able to put the ball in a sixpence as often as I do. When you don't
get it right, you just have to practice more...
▪ I know when the ball was going on. I was always able to hit them like that,
even as a kid. But I used to practice them back then too. That's why they come
off.
▪ When I came up to Manchester I stayed in the halls of residence and played
football every single day for two weeks. It was my idea of heaven.
▪ I couldn't get enough of United as a kid, I knew it was the club for me.
▪ The opportunity are even better now than when I was a kid. But if you don't
enjoy your football you can have the best facilities in the world and it doesn't
count for anything.
▪ I never refuse to sign an autograph, because I know how I felt as a kid when I
was turned down.
▪ My ambition is to stay at Manchester United, become captain and be the best
player in the world.
▪ My mom and dad ar the reason I'm the person I am today. They got me here. Yes,
I worked hard, but they're the reason.
▪ When I was a kid, I lived for the game. The football was the first thing I got
out when I got up and the last thing I put away before I went to bed. I just
couldn't get enough.. it didn't matter to me whether it was Wembley Stadium or a
piece of parkland near our home in Chingford.
▪ As a kid, I used to run around my local park pretending I was Manchester
United skipper, Bryan Robson, scoring goals. He was my idol.
▪ I would play football on my own for hours - or else with my dad... all my dad
and I talk about is football!
▪ When I was young, my dad always used to encourage my football. That's
something I'll try and do with my own son, should he wish it.
▪ Fatherhood is the best thing that's ever happened to me. It's something that
can't be beaten.
▪ I've always love kids, so I don't mind getting involved in the mucky side of
things.
▪ The most rewarding thing for me is where I'll be driving down the street and
you'll see a bunch of kids and they'll all have "Beckham, 7" on their backs.
▪ I just like looking good.
▪ I can either look like one of the smartest people, one of the smartest
dressers, or I can really look like the scruffiest dresser.
▪ For me and Victoria, year we're famous, but we try to see ourselves as normal.
▪ When I looked at Victoria for the first time, I felt real love.
▪ I always used to go for blondes. Not peroxide blondes, just natural blonde
girls! And quiet girls, not really loud. And Victoria is the total opposite ・
dark and loud.
▪ I never thought I would be captain.
▪ I am an affectionate person. I get upset easily. I will watch a film and I'll
cry.
▪ It was in the paper that they said we've used Brooklyn for publicity, which
we've never done.
▪ Football is really important to me, but my son and my wife are the most
important things to me in the world.
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