John McGinn Quotes

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

This is one of the challenges we have: knowing that playing without the ball is just as important as when you have the ball.

When we have to defend, I just try to recover the ball for the team because it's important, but I always try to go forward when we have the ball.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

As a midfielder, when you have sealed things up at the back, my job is to provide the ammunition for the strikers and forwards, to create opportunities for them.

If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

The lower you go down the levels, the more players think they need to hang on to the ball to prove how talented they are, but that's not football.

I don't want Kylian to play like Neymar and keep the ball. Kylian is incredibly dangerous in the final move, and I want him to stay that way.

I do not like to use a player solely to make a member of the opposing team, for one simple reason: when we cannot retrieve the ball, we are forced to defend with ten men, giving the opponents an advantage.

Losing the ball is not going to help your team, so I am trying to change that.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

Firstly, I am somebody who plays in a defensive role, and we need to start with that, but then I need to bring the ball forward and help the attack.

We have four parts of our game: working against the ball; in possession; losing the ball; winning the ball. If you are good in all four parts, you have a good chance of winning.

If I can't help the team offensively, I can help defensively.

When teams train now, it is about what they do with the ball and, if they lose it, how quickly they press to win it back.

If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.

As a striker, people look at the goals you score. But for me, my game is more than just about goals, it is how you link with other players.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

As long as we keep winning, that's all it's about. But it's evident I do need the ball.

I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.