Quotes About Growth

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

I've played with great players and worked with great managers; I've learned a lot from all of them.

Managers can sometimes hold players back for their own benefit.

New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point.

You have to train managers to encourage their teams to be entrepreneurial.

Well certain managers will see you make mistakes and they'll tell you about it and then they've told you once and if you do it again, then it's up to you.

I enjoy building more than managing.

I knew nothing about managing when I started.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

I went to Manchester poly for two years.

I have spent four wonderful years with Manchester City. They have grown a lot over the years.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

I am very proud of my three years there, of having decided to go to Manchester first - at 17, it was the perfect time for me to leave home because it helped make me as a person.

Back in Manchester, I was not happy with myself.

I can only thank Manchester City for everything they have done for me. What we have achieved in such a short space of time has been amazing.

When I came to Manchester, it was a bigger step from when I was in Villarreal. It is something that is not easy, when you come to a team where there are players that have more experience in the English league.

Now I've played 30 games, I have experience I can use in Manchester.

Things didn't quite work out at Manchester United for various reasons, but that's in the past.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

I'm growing into my manhood body.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

'Throw the losses away.' The family mantra.