Ashley Young Quotes

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

During the game, you don't really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you're just focusing on where you need to be.

On the pitch we tend to forget the things that happen off the field. I try to focus a lot on what I'm doing.

Before matches, there is a little bit of pressure, but on the pitch, you forget it all. You only think about playing football.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

I try and watch the ball closely. I've played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

Nothing's in my head when I'm out there; I'm just trying to have fun on the football pitch.

I do need to focus on playing my football and what's happening on the pitch rather than off it... I want to be myself and not think about it.

Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.

You've got to go out there and play your best. It's about what you do on the football field.

When I am on the pitch, I just want to play, I don't care if it is the Nou Camp or not; I just want to play.

My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.

When I'm on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I'm not worried about.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.