Ashley Young Quotes

Everybody watches free-kicks, and when you watch them, you enjoy them. You have got to learn how to shoot and connect with the ball and how to move your leg. For everybody, it is different, but if you want to score lots of goals, then free kicks is an extra way to do that.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

Ronaldinho and David Beckham, they took free kicks and took them very well, so there are some players I always try to follow and to learn important things from so that I am able to score goals.

I don't practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot.

You can never perfect nothing, really, so I need to tighten up my ballhandling, my shooting.

I always wanted to play with both feet, so today I'm happy I trained it so often.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

I'm going to continue to work on my shot every single day, and just try to improve that.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

I spent hours from 11 until 16 with Tottenham in the gym playing the ball against the wall. We played against the wall for an hour before we would have a match. Left foot. Right foot. In the square. In the circle. Above the line, below it. Chest control. Thigh control. Volley sideways.

Being able to use both feet was something that came quite naturally to me ever since I started playing. However, it's something I work on all the time to make sure that level never gets any lower.

I am a defender, but I can play the ball. I have a good technique.

I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

Even when I was training alone, just me and one of United's fitness coaches, I loved going onto the field, doing sprints, being at the training ground.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

Set pieces are something I work hard at after training, and I hit quite a lot every day.

Some lads were dribblers, some lads just loved scoring goals, whereas I enjoyed and took pride in practicing my passing and that. That's how it was.

People expect you to dribble past 10 players and put the ball in the back of the net.

I watched a lot of Alessandro Nesta videos, as he had similar characteristics, studied carefully and applied myself.

Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.