Quotes from Daniel James

When I see scarves or shirts, I think: 'Why have they got my name on? They could have Pogba or Rashford or Lingard.' When people ask for pictures, I'll think: 'You don't want one of me, you want one with them.'

It's important to keep getting back up. It's part of the game.

It is alright when things are going well, but everyone always says it is how you deal with things when they are going badly.

I exchange text messages with Ryan Giggs quite a lot because he was a legend here and someone I see as a big inspiration. Obviously, with him being the manager for Wales he helps me a bit.

It is massive progress in the space of a year being a Man United regular and playing for Wales. But things happen so quickly in football you have to be ready for anything.

The first games were against Belgium and Switzerland, and that changed me as well because I used to play striker at Hull, and when I went away with Wales, I played as a winger.

Whether I'm playing or not I'm proud. I'm as proud to play for Wales as I am Man United, to be there at the club.

I don't think you can sum up how it feels, to come on and score on my debut.

Even though I'm in the changing room and I know I am, you still have to pinch yourself every night that you can say you're a Manchester United player.

I watch TV, spend time with my family, chill with the boys and go to the cinema - that sort of thing.

It definitely isn't true that I supported Liverpool.

I've been asking my partner for a dog for a while and she kept saying no. She was obviously keeping it for a birthday surprise, and when I came home from Rotherham, Hugo was sat on the sofa waiting for me. It was a really nice surprise.

I think every kid grows up wanting to play for Manchester United. I never thought I'd be able to play against them, never mind play for them, so it's surreal, and I'm really looking forward to it.

To hear that Manchester United were interested was surreal for me because it was my first year in senior football.

It's about concentrating on the football for me.

Part of my game is about winning those fouls and getting in good positions.

The Premier League is the best league in the world and Manchester United is the perfect place for me to continue to develop as a player.

It was a tricky one as I had other clubs interested in me, not as big as United. I wasn't guaranteed game time anywhere, so why not take this opportunity at the biggest club in the world? If it doesn't work out, I can always go somewhere else. That was my mindset at the time.

I didn't think I was going to make it as a footballer.

Getting the message out there to speak out is huge, and I think you can be the brightest person in the room, but people never know what's going on really inside and the hardest thing is to speak out. You've got to speak out. I think sometimes you maybe hold it all in and it can get too much at times.

I'm sure there are players a lot quicker than me.

When people compare me to Kylian Mbappe, I am not quicker than him.

I did athletics when I was at school. I ran the 100 meters but I got beat once so stopped doing it.

It is important in football how you react to things when things aren't going so well.