Phil Jones Quotes

I've been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don't think I've ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that's what makes you a good teammate, and that's what everybody's looking for.

I want to be a role-model player, someone respected and looked up to.

I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.

I want to make sure I'm a role model for young girls and play the best I can for my team and my country.

I'm aware that I'm now a role model for younger players. I bring more maturity to practice - it's more of a work environment to me, where I consciously work to get better each day.

Players like Didier Drogba, going to watch him play and seeing him off the pitch as well, I got to see how he was with the players and the youngsters. Growing up, he was a good idol. He's a bubbly, funny character. He likes to make people feel welcome. You need those kind of people, wherever you are.

I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.

Have you ever heard of a club captain who's a bad egg? Me neither.

I'm going to have a great career when I'm done. But when people talk about me, I want them to say, 'Yo, not only was Shady McCoy really good, but he was a solid person in the locker room. He helped us out.'

Neymar has the capability to be a leader in the absence of Leo. He's one of those players who can make the team feel better.

Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

I love it when someone that inspires me is not only good because of what they inspire me for, but also because they're just an amazing person.

Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.