Lucas Radebe Quotes
born 1969 South Africa
Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe (born 12 April 1969) is a South African former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
- South Africa
- Soccer players
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As players you need to be treated as number one – when you retire only you have to live with your body.
I’ll never forget the love they showed me.
The proper structure is to get married first and eventually everything falls into place.
Travelling back and forth on long-haul flights all the time causes injuries and eventually takes its toll on the body.
Football can be a monster or your worst enemy because you have all the money and everything you need, you become exposed to many things, but once the foundation is strong, it is not easy to fall prey.
Family has shaped the person I am today and I always encourage people to build a strong family foundation.
Most of the decisions to retire are made by players who know they have to do something to keep their careers going.
But they welcomed me like a brother. Like a son.
My culture was completely different to theirs.
Leeds had a reputation for being the most racist city and I experienced a lot of it around the country.
For me football started as a hobby, every day after school, when I didn’t have anything to do in the township, I would participate in soccer games.
But from day one, I knew that football was a calling for me, because I’ve always worked in a big number of teams, I was competitive and always on top.
I was a stranger from across the world. I didn’t look like them.
However, my parents encouraged me to study because they valued the importance of education