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Gary Neville

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“Yeah, I mean, that's one thing I could never, ever, ever be accused of anything other than from the minute I joined at 11 to the minute I left at 36, Manchester United got everything out of me, everything. And to be fair, the club gave me everything. So we didn't owe each other anything. And that's something I'm proud of. Longevity is actually probably one of the things that consistency and longevity. Being able to consistently work hard every single day at a good level of performance and turn up every single day and be there is underrated actually. And that's the thing that to me, for surviving at 25 years under Stralitz-Fergson, in that environment of excellence and demands that he placed on people was, you know, it was a great achievement, but I did that with a lot less talent than the other players in the club.”
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“I'm always humble around my own ability because of the talent I had around me. And that's why I get caught on Twitter quite often people will say to me, if you hadn't been at Manchester United, you'd been a job in write back somewhere.”
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“I got the corner for the first goal because I went, I sprinted over to the left wing and took the long throw to put into the box. It came back out to me and we got the corner. It's not an assist by any stretch of the imagination. It typifies my career of seven goals and very few assists. I'm no Trent Alexander Arnold or nor even had Denny Serwin. But you have to find a way to win. You have to just do everything you possibly can. You cannot leave anything on the pitch. You just sprint everywhere. You just do everything. And that to me typified what probably I was, that I could see something in that, you know, in terms of how to impact a game, whether it be through impacting someone else by getting them going and giving them the ball and getting them at it. And that's why I think he kept me there till I was 36, because it wasn't through ability at the end. He kept me there till I was 36, just through my influence and my impact I had in the dressing room. I'm pretty certain of that because it wasn't through anything that was doing on the pitch.”
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“Was good enough for me in the end, but no, it's not disparaging. I knew the game, I could organise, I knew the game well. I read the game well. And on the pitch, I would never, ever give in. So around me, this idea of being able to organise the team, I could see the game in front of me. So I had an impact. I believe I had an impact on the other players that I played with beyond my talent through my understanding of the game and making sure that I never stopped going and we never stopped going. We keep going. We just keep pushing forward. So if we're fighting for a goal, you know, I always think I never go into this level of grand year. I probably never said this before. When people say to me, what's the greatest moment in my life? I say it's the final 99 in the new camp when we won the treble. I made a run from right back.”
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“And then I go to write back. So you are aware that you're being pushed out of your positions by better players and that that's your only route to success is hard work and playing it right back and trying to adapt to that.”
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“I had to just do things differently. I was a midfield player. Then I was a centre back, then ended up at right back. There is an element of truth in what Carriger said. No one wants to grow up to be a Gary Neville, meaning no one wants to grow up to be a fullback. Everyone, when they're a kid, scores goals or sets up goals. And then you find out that you're not good enough to do that and you get pushed back the team. That's what happened with me. I was one position away. That was my last hope right back. You know what I mean? If I was out the team, if I couldn't play right back, I'd gone from center midfielders in 11, 12 year old at United, then centre back from 14 to 18, and then told I wasn't good enough by my reserve team coach to be a centre back at United because Steve Bruce and Gary Pallis were there.”
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“David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dwight York, Eric Canton, every single one of them had more talent and ability than I did. They just did. It was just obvious around me. When I got to United, about insecurity, the only time that I ever felt insecure was when I got to United 11 and I joined at 11. And there was a center of excellence group and then we got retained every single year. But at 14s where it gets really serious and this eye and the school boys and the outer town lads come in. So all of a sudden you're exposed to them to Beckham, to Skulls joined at 14, all these brilliant players. And you think, how am I going to survive here? I could just, I'm aware. I know my own abilities.”
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“I just played with brilliant players, didn't I? I mean, if you think about it, just go through the players who I played with Yapsdam, you know, Dennis Irwin, Peter Schmichael, Roy Keane”
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“Yeah, ring me, just ring me. Anyone can ring me and just say, look, I've got a problem. And then we drop everything, don't we? I always feel like it's the biggest responsibility I have is to the people that I work with. And if they ring me and they're in trouble, they've got a problem. We have to deal with that. That's the absolute immediate.”
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“I love speaking to people. So I lived in a dressing room where the camaraderie, when you email each other at Manchester United. Charles Ferguson didn't email me. We had a brilliant team spirit in the club. We were there every single day. We spoke to each other. We socialized with each other. We'd help each other. We knew each other. And that's how you build a team spirit. And I felt sometimes email can be. I know it needs to happen in businesses. I know that you need to see attachments. I know you need to communicate with each other. I do believe that they can be quite damaging to culture sometimes, particularly if the wrong tony on the email. I think you can be misunderstood on email. I think it can come across harsh. I think they can put pressure on people. And I realize that the first five years out of football, I was emailing people five, six o'clock in the morning. But you imagine you emailing people at five, six o'clock in the morning, the impact that that's going to have on them when they wake up. I've got to deal with that. I've got to email them back. It's like, that's not fair. It's not right. So I have made quite a few changes.”
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“Emails. I think if you wake up to an email at four in the morning that's an email that's not a great email, let's say it's something that you think, I've got to deal with that. You aren't getting back to sleep. So I've taken email off my phone. It's only on my iPad. It helps. WhatsApp, I mean, WhatsApp announced last week that they were going to sort of this idea that you couldn't be joined in groups and people didn't know when you were online. I just felt like it was an intrusion. WhatsApp. I felt like people were attacking me. a constant attack of added to groups and see that I'm online and things like that. And I thought, oh no, get off. Get away from me. So I just do eye message now. And I say to people, ring me. So there have been changes that I've made that are helpful because I do feel email is.”
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“But then it's the actual sustaining the changes and not dipping back into your old habits. The problem. So, what do I do? I train four or five times a week. I wasn't always training pre that. I try, I've got a sleep ring, and it focuses me more on the time I need to sleep at night. But then I don't always wear it now. You know, it's a couple of years later. It's in my bag. It's in. I didn't wear it last night. And I'm annoyed with myself because I didn't wear it last night because I forgot to put it on when I got back. So habits really that sort of, do you drift back into your old habits? I try not to pick my phone up when I first wake up, but I'm failing miserably at that. Fairly miserable, but I have taken an email off my phone. I've taken WhatsApp off my phone. Because they're things that I think were.”
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“Probably the same with me when things have happened in my life where I thought I didn't expect that to come. Yeah, I'll take that. So we are probably being dragged. It's a little bit like jumping off. You go skiing, you're off the sort of black slope. There's no way out of it. You're going down and you can't stop. And it's a little bit like, you know, I feel like, to be fair, my life's a little bit like a black sloping skiing. I've gone over the edge. I've started. What can I do now? Slow down. Say to my businesses, say to the teams that I work with, sorry, I don't fancy this anymore. Well, thanks for that, but we're here still. I've got no choice.”
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“That you're going to have bad decisions, bad choices, bad days. So when they come now, I can put them into perspective and move on really comfortably. So I feel like I don't feel vulnerable or insecure. I'm not quite sure sometimes, you know, people say I've got a strategy, I've got a plan. I'm not quite sure any of us have really, because the reality of it is we don't know what door's going to open next. You don't know six years ago, five years ago, that Dragon's Den is going to come and knock on your door. You don't know that. You haven't got a clue. Or ten years ago, certainly. You don't know that's going to happen in your life. But when the knock on the door comes, you think. Fancy walking through that door”
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“I feel so confident, and I feel not confident, I feel like I've got coping mechanisms to be able to deal with things. So there isn't any criticism. There's very, very little criticism that I receive now that even touches the sides of me. And I get criticised heavily on social media through my football punditry, my opinions, whatever it may be. Because of what I went through United, losing that confidence at the age of 24, post-treble, going through that difficult patch where I didn't want the ball, seeing the psychiatrist on my own, only the doctor knew, not talking about it till I was 35. But what that psychiatrist gave me was coping mechanisms and perspective. And I just asked, you know, if I go through a difficult moment now, I ask myself the question, will I come out of it to the other side? Did I expect every day to be a good day? No, I don't expect every day to be a good day. So when the bad day comes and it's a really bad experience or you have a make a bad business decision, did you think you'd make every decision would be a good decision in business? No, it wouldn't be a good, you're not going to make the right decision every single day.”
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“A weekend, it's a mini retirement. It's where I basically can say for three days I'm there and I'm basically taking, you know, I don't think about work. Now I will. And sometimes my best ideas come when I'm on these types of trips. But then in six weeks, I'll have another mini retirement for five days or four days. Rather than thinking you're going to stop for six months and sort of have a sabbatical, that's not probably going to happen with people like you or I because we just basically don't work that way. So to have lots of mini retirements during the year is what I've tried to do in the last few years. I'm not sure I'm doing it very successfully. I'm not sure what's wrong with us if that's what you're asking. Is there something wrong with us? I don't feel insecure or vulnerable. I don't feel insecure or vulnerable at all. I feel...”
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“At a very young age. Yeah, maybe. I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't feel not sure because this idea that if you stop, it'll kill you and all that sort of stuff. Slow down. I do feel like I need to slow down. I've read a book, I think. I can't remember what it was a couple years ago where it talked about you can never really retire. If you love work and you are relentless, but what you can have is mini retirements during the year. And that's what I've tried to do. I don't do it very well. So for instance, this weekend, I'm going to Spain Friday till Monday morning. I call that's like a mini retirement.”
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“Love doing it maybe it's what you enjoy, but you sometimes have those moments, don't you, I have more of those moments where I think, why am I doing those? Why have I got two hotels? Why have I got a football club? Why have I got a university? Why have I built an overlap channel? I'm already on Sky. Why am I doing these things? But it's that idea of, I suppose, cramming as much into your life as possible thinking you've just only got this sort of short period of time. And Brian Kidd used to say to us, get your pace early, you can't make it up at the end. And we used to sprint and sprint in our runs and sprint. And that means if you collapsed at the end and you didn't quite finish it or whatever, it's better than managing yourself and thinking, I'll save a little bit. I have to say the players that I played with at Manchester United, we never saved anything. It was all left out there on the pitch. And I think that's our lives are since as well. We just leave everything out there on the pitch. There's nothing saved. So we just end up...”
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“But what can I do? I come down to Brentford, Manchester United, I then stay down Sunday because I can't get a train back. There's a train strike. And then I'm down doing Monday night football and they'll go back today. Last week I was down for another four days. But it's what I do. I love what I do. I wouldn't change it. But this afternoon I'll get back to Manchester. I've got meetings till six. And then tomorrow I'm full all day. Thursday in Glasgow doing a dinner with Sir Alex Ferguson. So it is a constant sort of every single day that I feel like I'm filling days with things that I love and want to do. But then you say to yourself, you do have those odd moments more now. Why am I doing all this? Why are you doing this now?”
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“Even during this interview, I'm speaking, and sometimes I lose my way in an interview, and I actually forget what the question was. And quite often I'll say, what was the question? If I'm on a stage doing like a Q&A, what did you actually ask me? Because I've had to drift it off whilst I'm asking me the question into something that I need to do later. And it's I'm never present. So the consequences that maybe, I remember Sir Alex saying to me, missed his children growing up. I am missing my children growing up. That's a consequence of my life. I've been in London for four days.”
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“It was with Jeff Streve. Jeff know me 15 20 years. And he said, the problem is when I'm asking you a question Got my question inside the first two seconds. Let's say it's a 10 second question. You've got my question inside the first two seconds. The next eight seconds, you're thinking about what you're doing after. I can see it in your eyes already. And he's right”
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“Health, I think, and I've seen that in the last couple of years with myself. I think No I've said this to be fair on something that I've done myself in the last week on the overlap. Actually, to be fair Raheem Sterling scored the goal in the. European Championships against Germany a year and a half ago. And I basically collapsed the floor and had a fit. After that, I went to hospital, I had checks and then found that, you know, I need to slow down a little bit basically. It's similar things to what my dad was told in his 40s, that, you know, ultimately I do too much. Too much, I need to relax more. To be fair, my wife says it quite often Here, but you're not present. And Justin, it was an interview. I was an interview the other day.”
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“I feel sometimes that that is a good thing. It's put that into us. But sometimes to live by that now, particularly at the age I'm at, sometimes you sort of think Hard to keep on doing it, and you wonder now, particularly what we know now, whether it's the right thing. My dad had heart problems at a very early age, at the age of 42. You know, he's a lorry driver. He liked to go for a beer. He liked to night out. He did too much. He got stressed. All the things that I do. So he thinks there's a lot I can see in my dad of me, but I don't think I can change it, really.”
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“He almost do two jobs, he'd do his job, which was his main job, which was earning him his money, which was a lorry driver. He'd then come and do the job, which would be potentially, could he do some sort of like side job selling for Lancashire County Club or Green Mount Cricket Club? He organized dinners and events and things like that. And then his family would come after school where he'd put them into sport and would go to United in the evening or we'd go. We were at United from 11, 11 Monday and Thursday night. So this constant drive of trying to fit as much as you possibly can in the day. And that's where I sort of, the attack of the day was from my dad, get up, get there early. Let's make sure we're there. Even at United, we get there early on Saturday. There would never be a risk. Of being”
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“We always get up early as a family anyway, but before five o'clock, you'd hear my dad, we lived in the back, we were in the back bedroom and his lorry, his wagon was parked at the back. When if he was doing to do a drop the next day, and he'd leave at 4, 5 o'clock in the morning on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday, he'd take the suitcases, he'd wait for the depot to open at sort of 7, 8 o'clock, drop them off, and he'd be back and have his job done by 11 o'clock. And then he'd start to go and do his what would be his commercial work, the fundraising for testimonials, the thing that he loved for, say, for instance, Lancashire County curricula plays. And that was his passion. That's how he got into Berry Football Club as a commercial director and into football because he had a sales mentality, my dad. But his main job done by 11 o'clock every single morning, he'd be Daventry and back in a lorry. And then after school, he take us to football and he'd take us to cricket. So the amount he fit into a day was unbelievable.”
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“He was a lorry driver, and he basically worked for Constellation Luggage, which was just luggage, you know, suitcases. And he had to do three drops a week at Daventry, which is south of Birmingham. And he had just had to get them there basically by the end of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. But we lived in a two down terraced house, and every time my dad got up, you can hear your dad get up when you're young, you just hear it because it's obviously the lights come on, you hear the sort of noise the floorboards are creaking.”
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“With, and I think when you say, like, how did we achieve that? I just think we're very fortunate with our parents and the exposure that we had to brilliant leaders throughout our career and examples and the standard bearers that were next to us.”
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“I think of it as in different layers for me personally. I don't know what it was like for my sister or my brother, but for me personally, I think of it as being the first layer was my mum and dad. Their love for sport, their commitment to get there early to do things. My dad used to say get up early, get there early, get your job done. And then when I got to United, I'm hit by knobby styles, Brian Kidd, you know, Manchester United European Cup winners of 1968, and then Eric Harrison, a northern tough Yorkshireman who every single day drilled us about what it was to be a Manchester United player. And then you're exposed to Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keene and Peter Schmichael and Mark Hughes. So these different layers of monstrous mentalities of people who are just massively leaders, we've been exposed to them. I was exposed to them. And that's why I always say that resilience and robustness and hard work can be taught and learned. I don't think it's something you're born.”
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“And when I think of that, that's the end. I suppose in terms of that sort of that feeling of just that drive, that commitment to what we do, people say it's not normal. Someone said to me, say it's not normal that we would continue our lives irrespective of, and that probably came from my dad and from a mum.”
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“Someone said to me, It's not normal that, and my sister, my dad passed away in Australia whilst he was watching my sister play for the Commonwealth Games. And me and my brother flew straight over there. My sister was still coaching the team. She never broke stride. And he was on a ventilator keeping him alive, even though he'd actually, to be fair, passed away. And they were just waiting for us to get over. The day after we got there, Sister said, I've got a game tomorrow. We can't pronounce that he's actually dead until after I've finished the game and I come back to the hospital.”
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“I don't know really. I'll start at the end because I was having a conversation yesterday about. actually how long should you take off after you've had a baby as a couple whether it be the man or the woman and i was thinking about my sister and she took like two or three weeks off and then she was back at it And also, my father passed away seven years ago, and on the morning of his funeral, I went and presented our project St. Michael's at a council meeting and then went and got ready at home and went to his funeral straight after it.”
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“I do feel sorry for the current players, and that won't go down well with a lot of Manchester United fans. These players go out onto the pitch now, they feel alone, but that's where I am a little bit critical of Cristiano. You're the star. Now's not a time to throw in your arms around. Now's the time to make sure you lead those people. Resilience and robustness and hard work can be taught and learnt. I don't think it's something you're born with. The minute I joined at 11 to the minute I left at 36, Manchester United got everything out of me. Everything. All the people I always talk about having the influence on my life. I never mention my mum and her mum and dad. The far better people than I am. That's making me a little bit upset.”
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“I basically collapsed the floor and had a fit. I went to hospital I checks and then found that I needed to slow down a little bit. And I'd stopped doing the things that kept me well and I'd just run myself into the ground. So I knew that at that point then I needed to see somebody.”
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