Quotes from Ashley Young

I am one of those players who has many scars up and down my legs from being kicked, but I know I have a job to do, and beating my opponent is my goal.

Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.

When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

There's a lot said now about younger players: that it's just about the cars and houses. I'm from the old school - it's about what you've achieved in the game.

It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.

I've been a versatile player since I started playing football.

I'm a versatile player, can play in numerous positions, and I have a good football brain, even if it is getting older.

Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'

Of course I have aspirations and ambitions to play for my country.

You don't enter a competition not to win it.

When Martin O'Neill spent £9m on me to take me to Villa, it was a massive boost.

As you get older, you start to read the game more, and as your brain starts working more, and as you get a good footballing brain, your legs start slowing down!

A lot's been said about me playing for three different managers.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

I have my heart set on being unhappy so dont try and change my mind.

If you cant find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.