Quotes from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Playing in a team like Arsenal helps massively having all of these players around you giving you advice. When they are playing well, you feel comfortable, and it helps you to play well, too.

Arsenal are all about nice, intricate passing movements around the box, so if I shoot too much from outside the box without scoring, the boss will have a go at me!

If there's a shot on, I like to take the opportunity as well, and I like passing the ball - which is one of the reasons I came to Arsenal. But I'm a player that likes to come up with an end product - whether that's a goal, an assist, or helping the team to get good results.

You can have one good game, but the next one could be a bad one.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

You have to believe in yourself. If you don't, no one else will.

To do well at a new competition, you need a lot of good performances.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

I can have the worst game of my life, come off the pitch, and my mum will tell me I was great! That's what mums do.

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.

Clubs will lose great players, and great players will come in.

If you are good friends with someone, you get to know them better and their strengths and weaknesses. You have that respect for each other, and you learn the way one another play.

The more positions I can play, it gives the manager a nice headache, and it can be helpful for him.

I'm quite confident to take people on - if there's a one against one, I'll definitely take it on if I feel I can get a cross in or set someone up.

FA Cup or league - we look to win every game.

My dad speaks a lot of sense and keeps me grounded. He'll watch me play and, if I've done well, he'll have a quiet word with me and say, 'Well done.' If I've had a not-so-good game, he'll let me know about it.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

Obviously, the big teams create the bigger atmosphere around the stadiums.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

At a massive club like Liverpool, people will come and go. It is our job to keep the wheels moving and momentum going.

Wherever I played, I had an opportunity to show my attributes.

Obviously, everyone goes in the gym and does the biceps bells and the bench press, but when you're injured, you work on your core, your pelvic floor, your groins, on glutes, and muscles you wouldn't really know about. It does make you a stronger player all round in terms of injury prevention.