Richard K. Morgan Quotes

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

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.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.

Working abroad made me better.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

I did almost take a job in China because I thought it might be good for me to go abroad and experience what I think the best coaches in the Premier League have had. It helps you learn. You have to evolve.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.

With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.

You get to learn so much while working in another country.

I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.

Moving from Dubai to the Congo was one of the best things that happened to me, it's a shock to be confronted by the contrast in wealth and culture, and it's hard, but I loved it and it influenced me a lot.

I have definitely learned a lot from playing in different countries and in different styles of football, and I feel very happy now with Al Ain.

People have asked me about what it's like to work in Pakistan and abroad. It's such a healthy cultural exchange.

When I came to Chelsea and worked with Mourinho, it was my first time abroad, so that was an important stage for me.

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.