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I was getting well paid but I never started playing football for the money.

- Rickie Lambert
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But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool. And when I look back now I realise I lost something mentally as a player, by allowing that to happen.

And I probably had three seasons when I was on the slide, and I kind of fell out of love with football, and that was it, so I retired.

I went to West Brom, and I couldn't do what I wanted to do, and Tony Pulis was a very physically-demanding manager, and I couldn't get around the pitch like he wanted, so I moved on.

Luckily I was financially okay, so I had a choice, I didn't have to stay in the game. A lot of players have to play as long as they can. I didn't.

It was so disappointing the way it ended but, to play for England in the World Cup, was still the highlight of my career.

I never really got taught to be a striker in the first place and then I never got taught how to be a lone striker.

You've got to dream. You've got to believe, that's what I've done all my life. I'm rolling with it at the minute. It seems like it's not stopping. Who knows where it will end?

Even though I'm 32 I feel like a kid again. I've got so much enthusiasm for the game. The fact that I'm playing under Brendan Rodgers and for Liverpool, I just can't wait.

I'm a striker and any chance I get I want to score.

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