Quotes from Ryan Mason

The teams who win things are those who, when the going gets tough, pull together, put their foot in, win tackles and second balls.

It's very difficult in the Premier League to win three, four, five games in a row.

My whole life, I've been preparing for moments and you can only know how you're going to react once you're in them.

There are no guarantees in football.

I am and always will be eternally grateful for the incredible network of people around me who have helped me to recover from what was a life-threatening injury in January 2017.

I think from day one, recovering, it is just try to be as positive as you can.

Harry Kane is one of the most professional guys I've ever seen or come across in my life.

I don't think kids should be heading real balls.

I respect the fans, they're the heart and soul of the football club and their opinion matters, it really does.

I don't have to coach. Football is a very rewarding game at the highest level. I'm doing it because I have a passion.

I was in hospital for eight days and when I came home I probably slept for 18 to 20 hours a day for the first four or five weeks. Breakfast would tire me out. Just getting up to sit at the table would be exhausting. I couldn't physically do anything.

Of course no player wants to end their career with regrets. I don't think any human being likes having regrets either.

I think my thoughts were of pure fear in those seconds after the collision. A clash of heads is pretty common in football but the sheer impact of it was worrying, because it was in this temple area. It seems to be a softer part of the head. I remember being on the ground. It really did feel like a bomb had exploded in my head. It was so painful.

In England there's a philosophy that it's better to be bigger and stronger. I was in the gym doing bench-presses which had no relevance and it wasn't helping me on the pitch. It was extra weight I didn't need and I couldn't carry. A lot of injuries came through that.

What separates the good players from the greats people remember is consistency.

In terms of management, I love what I am doing, it's incredible, I love representing the club and having the honor and responsibility of helping a set of players get football results because there is nothing better.

Representing my country is an honor that nobody can ever take away from me and something that I am so proud to have achieved.

To have had the honor of captaining the team fills me with immense pride.

Sometimes you have a clash of heads and it feels a bit sore, but I remember the impact was huge. I was touching my head and it felt like it was pouring with blood, but I remember looking and there was nothing on my hand. For me that was a sign it was probably quite serious.

When you've played reserve team football in front of 50 people, then you play at White Hart Lane with five or six of the same lads - it's hard to describe what that feels like.

That's all hypothetical - if we win, if we do this.' I've said all along my only focus is on the next game, I'm really not silly enough to starting thinking ahead of certain situations.

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

I can't speak on transfer value and people's stock and all that. In football things change so quickly.

I don't think repetitive heading at a young age is doing the kids any good, that's for sure.