Quotes About Development

Children basically need one thing: to be played with.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

It doesn't matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 - you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.

County cricket has helped every player who has been part of it.

All I want to do is improve as a player.

I just want to continue getting better and build as a player.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

You get better by playing, honestly. That's where you develop as a player is to play through mistakes in game action.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

In Italy I have learnt a lot, I have matured both as a man and as a player. I have lived the best years of my career here.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.

I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between 23 and 24. I think in three years, they'll be well-armed to play qualifiers.

I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.

Sometimes recruiters and scouts are missing on players. Going after the guys who are really hyped, five-star players and guys that are playing in grassroots and are seen all the time. Then there are the players that developed internally. They go to small schools and they continue to work on their games and they blow up later.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

The more players who come through the academy and make it into the first team, that's what we want. Not just for the club but for the country. If they're young English players coming through, that's fantastic. I'm happy to be part of that.