Gary Lineker
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So I thought, I'll just smack it down the middle and it works.
Because if you go one way or the other and the keeper goes the right way, you've got to be incredibly accurate.
Do you know, when I get nerves, I get nerves watching sport, but never participating in it, or even broadcasting.
But watching...
We're recording this just after Rory McIlroy won the Masters.
Watching Rory, because I'm a massive Rory fan, it's nerve-wracking.
Watching Leicester when they were going towards the league title in that miraculous season.
2016.
I got nervous.
But not for myself, because I don't know...
As you quite rightly say, you get paid a lot of money because you're quite good at what you do.
And I think also to be a striker, I don't know how you can be a striker if you're a bit nervous.
I was almost cold when I was young.
I was very ambitious, very driven.
very cold and... Emotionally cold?
Yes.
Yeah, dramatically changed.
I don't know whether it was having kids, I don't know whether it was George's illness when he was a baby.
It's just a culmination of things.
And I don't think I was particularly empathetic when I was a footballer.