A Quote by Kevin Whately
I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.
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My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.
When you are no longer England captain, you suddenly realise it's over, you are no longer England captain, and you appreciate what you had.
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.
Getting the opportunity to captain England is a huge honour - even if it's only the once you can still say 'yeah, I've captained England.'
But I was club captain at Leeds, club captain at Fulham. If you've got a bad attitude you're not getting those honours.
I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.
I think 'chuffed to bits' is a very Yorkshire way of describing my feelings for my friend and county team-mate Joe Root on his promotion to England captain.
I used to see Michael Vaughan play at the club and then to watch him captain England was inspiring.
I wanted to get experience of playing a season on loan at a club, to play week in, week out.
I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.
I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
If I was playing for my local club I'd want to play in exactly the same way as if I was playing for England and, if that ever changes, it's probably time to stop.
Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
Well, now I am retired I am doing a variety of different sports such as cycling and tennis, and I have pulled out my golf clubs and started golf as well.
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