Quotes from Shaun Wright-Phillips

In a game I'm, like, 'Rubber Man' or something but, off the pitch, I'm the least flexible person you could imagine.

It's not so much frustrating, it's just that if you don't know when you are going to play, how do you focus on a game? That's part of football, though, and if you are going to be at a big club you have to deal with it.

If its proven that there's racial abuse, the team's fans where there's abuse should quit the game as a loss and the result should go to the winner basically.

I am not a person to quit. If something needs harder work then I will put my head down and do it.

For Man City, and the teams up the top or even the teams at the bottom, if you're getting into your stride at that time, the winter break can almost break it and when you come back you could be doing the opposite things.

All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.

I am strong minded, a believer that you can make things happen if you really want it that badly.

I wouldn't say Pulisic is there to fill Hazard's boots. It's not fair to put that load on him. He's there to bring another way of playing for Chelsea and he will create his own footprints basically and build his own legacy there at the Bridge. He is definitely a player the fans will like. In America he is rated very, very highly.

Some people handle situations differently - some people have a reaction, some people let it go over their head.

Sometimes people don't realise just how hard it is to play with 10 men in the Premier League.

Chelsea are a massive family, that is the great thing about the club.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

I've been to Dubai many times for holidays.

Everyone knows what a great player, as well as a person, David Beckham is. I am just hoping that I can learn from him. I know if I want to go far in my football career I have to do as well as him.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

At City I went back there on the basis of playing for manager Mark Hughes.

Representing your country is a highlight in everybody's career.

If you are hurting inside, you can't really show it because you want the team to do well because that's part of football.

I've never been able to touch my toes. Seriously, never.

If you're a footballer there will be certain silly people in the world who try to set you down. But just focus on your football.

If you let in a goal, you don't sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away.

Only players can understand what it's like, travelling and playing every three days, it gets on top of you.

I work on my whole game and learn from the people around me, who I've benefited from tremendously, or the new players who come in to the club.

Being out of a team changes you as a person. You don't realise it but, away from the game, you can be snappy with your family or friends if you're not playing. It hurts not to be involved, but I guess you have to accept it. It's part and parcel of being at a big club.