Quotes About Growth

It doesn't matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 - you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.

County cricket has helped every player who has been part of it.

All I want to do is improve as a player.

I just want to continue getting better and build as a player.

Marquinhos is very good in the middle, as in defence. He is an incredible player who must and always wants to improve.

You get better by playing, honestly. That's where you develop as a player is to play through mistakes in game action.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

Each player becomes the best in the world in their own time.

In Italy I have learnt a lot, I have matured both as a man and as a player. I have lived the best years of my career here.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.

I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

I've been really lucky, played with a lot of great players, lot of great coaches.

Great players have bad years.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

I've been hanging out with some really good football players and having a few more opportunities to have the ball in my hands, and I think it really just comes down to those things.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

The more players who come through the academy and make it into the first team, that's what we want. Not just for the club but for the country. If they're young English players coming through, that's fantastic. I'm happy to be part of that.

A lot of players get to a certain point they don't want to make mistakes. They just want everyone to see how great they are. That ends up being their downfall. You put a cap on yourself.

I am one of the pioneers, along with those players who went before me, and I'm coming to China to help the league and help more players get to know this league.

My playground as a musician is growing.

My playground was our company. That's really where I grew up.