Quotes by Ryan Giggs

About Ryan Giggs:

Ryan Joseph Giggs is a Welsh football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager at Manchester United and co-owner of Salford City. He played his entire professional career for Manchester United. The son of rugby league player Danny Wilson, Giggs was born in Cardiff but moved to Manchester at the age of six when his father joined Swinton RLFC.
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Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

Ryan Giggs

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

Ryan Giggs

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

Ryan Giggs

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

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He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Ryan Giggs

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity...

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When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

Ryan Giggs

My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's about making sure I'm right physically because mentally I'm OK.

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There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

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I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

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I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

Ryan Giggs

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

Ryan Giggs

What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers f...

Ryan Giggs

You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.

Ryan Giggs

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

Ryan Giggs

I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.

Ryan Giggs

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

Ryan Giggs

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

Ryan Giggs

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

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Author Bio

  • NameRyan Giggs
  • DescriptionWelsh association football player
  • AliasesRyan Wilson
  • BornNovember 29, 1973
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Player
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire