Gary Lineker
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We're not a team that just goes out...
like kicking people like some would in those days in those days because you needed to commit seriously you know grievous bodily harm to actually get even a yellow card back then really yeah it felt like that to me when i was being kicked anyway
I never thought I'd see a better player than Diego.
And I'm not sure, he might not necessarily be a better player, but he's lived better, therefore he's had greater longevity.
And I think you have to take that into account.
I mean, I just can't explain how good he is.
Because he does stuff that I...
I mean, he'd do four or five things in a game that I wouldn't have done in one game in my entire career.
And I played, you know, at the top.
He plays like he's watching himself from above.
Take away all the goals and the dribbles and stuff.
His passing and his vision, I just don't know how it's humanly possible.
It's just bizarre.
But I just got so much time for him.
He's given me 20 years of joy watching him.
Cristiano's an incredible footballer.
They are, but they're different.
They're different.
I always feel bad because people have a go at me because they say, oh, you don't like Ronaldo.
It's not that I don't like Ronaldo.