Erik Lamela Quotes

I enjoyed every moment with Tottenham. But in one moment, you feel you need to take a step forward, to go to a higher level.

I think you have to recognise where you are as a player. I knew I had to go out to learn - to sit around at Liverpool wasn't going to do me any good.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.

I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.

It is something I would like to do, to be a manager, but that's not assuming I will be. It's something that I can strive towards and see where it takes us.

It was a difficult decision to leave Liverpool but I knew it was something I had to do to get playing regularly and improve.

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.

I have got to a level where I feel I needed to make the jump to Chelsea and push myself and get myself to a better level and playing with world-class players here is only going to help.

I was always taught by my father to challenge myself and to continue to evolve in my career, and I saw the move to Manchester United as an opportunity to grow as a player and as a person.

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

I am happy at PSV, but I am a player with a lot of ambition.

Going to Leicester, suddenly, football was just my living. This was the way I was going to support my family. That is when I started to mature as a player.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

I've had a lot of success in England, and I've really enjoyed my time with Manchester City, but I wanted to challenge myself even further by playing abroad.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

The advice I give, no matter male or female, is not being afraid to step outside your comfort zone and think more long-term about your career than maybe the next year.

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.

Leaving a club like Real and coming to as big a club as Manchester United makes you grow as a player and helps you progress in your career.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I pretty much figure a collar will do, but as time goes on, I'm hoping I learn how to throw a suit on or something. I've still got some time. I'm not the president of the United States yet.