Quotes About Growth

I know and the manager knows my best position is centre-half but if I can learn two other positions if needed then it's great for me as a player and my development.

You want to learn from everyone, but I think one of the main guys I look up to is Thiago. We play different positions but his awareness on the field, his touches, everything about him is so calm.

I played many positions under Guardiola. That helps to see the game from a different perspective, you learn more.

I'm not afraid to challenge guys. I'm not afraid to put guys in positions to help the team. And I'm not beyond accepting criticism and challenges myself. I think that's why guys are attracted to wanting to play and be around me. They know I'm all in on winning.

I need to put myself in the positions that test you the most at the very high end of the game.

Every position is a bit different, but for a young player it's important to be able to play different positions, to see the game in a different view, to learn of every position. Because you need different skills, and it's perfect for a young player to develop.

Every day brings new choices.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

In moments of difficulty there are positives you can take and lessons you can learn.

I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits.

If there's something negative about you, you've got to bring out the positive to the front.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

Sometimes you can win, but you are not building something positive for your future.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I think that my attitude about myself is something that I've been trying to work on - trying to be more positive and just believing in myself more.

My personality can be extreme in all ways, even in positive ways; I've learned that.

There will be byes, there will be catches that will go down, but what is important is what you do when the next chance arrives. Because there will always be a next catch. If you are not positive, if you are not in a good frame of mind, you can drop that next one, too.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

Honestly, after working for more than 10-11 years in the industry, I've learnt that you have to only take the positives.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

I guess I have a positive attitude about divorce because I have some friends who've gotten divorced, and I'm like, 'Well, if it's better, then - good!'

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.