"James Peter" ""Jimmy"" "Greaves" is a former England national football team/England international Association football/footballer. He is England's fourth highest international goalscorer (44 goals), Tottenham Hotspur F.C./Tottenham Hotspur's highest ever goalscorer (268 goals), the highest goalscorer in the history of English English football league system/top-flight football (357 goals), and has also scored more hat-tricks (six) for England than anyone else. He finished as the Football League First Division/First Division's top scorer in six seasons. He is a member of the English Football Hall of Fame.

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The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

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Jimmy's death devastated my wife, Irene, and myself. It nearly drove us out of our minds.

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As parents, you expect your children to outlive you and when that doesn't happen, you become an empty shell. Jimmy was a beautiful boy and his time on this earth was all too brief. It kind of puts losing my World Cup winner's medal to Geoff into perspective, doesn't it? But you don't go through life without having some really bad times, and I've had some great times, too.

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Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

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We are really the victims of our own problems.

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Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

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We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.

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Since I stopped playing, people have been comparing strikers with me. If anyone wants to say it about Michael Owen, however, they are quite welcome.

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