James Milner Quotes

I've been playing football for a while, but Guardiola really made me a better player. I was 29 when I started working with him, so I wasn't very young, but if you see the steps I made thanks to him, it shows you what he is capable of doing. Guardiola didn't just put me on the flanks but in other positions as well.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

It does not matter to me. I can play from the left, the right, or attack through the middle.

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

Manager Kit Symons sees our players daily. As a top-flight player not that long ago, Kit knows and feels the game.

I'm a versatile player, I'm a technical player, and I play with my head, but I can progress further.

You play in different situations and conditions, and you have to come up with new solutions for the problems. It has made me a more rounded player, who can handle different tactics and positions.

You need to know exactly where to be on the pitch at all times.

Leipzig made me a better player.

I have been playing box-to-box more for Everton as a two, so I have felt comfortable in that position, but anywhere across the midfield I can play.

The most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when. A lot of players are playing intuitively, and I want them to think and know why they do something.

Each coach you have gives a little something to every player, but the one who changed my game the most was Mancini. He taught me to play more outside the area, dropping me back a bit.

I know and the manager knows my best position is centre-half but if I can learn two other positions if needed then it's great for me as a player and my development.

I would say I am more comfortable in the centre of midfield. But when you are at a big club like Liverpool, you maybe get played in positions with which you might not be so familiar. But you have got to learn the different roles, because it gives you a better opportunity to play.

I have grown a lot as a player and I have to thank Conte for helping in my development.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

I'm lucky to have played two different positions. But of course the experience I gained as a full back - knowledge of defending, and taking up the right positions, helps me as a midfielder.

I have worked on my defense skills and played in the midfield as well. Coaches are preparing players to play at any given position.

I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

I can play at left-back and I can help the team at times. But everyone knows I am not a left-back.

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

My confidence has been really building since my time at Espanyol. The two coaches are actually very similar on the pressing side of the game. They spend a lot of time on that side of it, and it's a lot of hard work.

It makes it easier for you to play more often and it makes it easier for the manager if he has players who can be used in different positions.

I've always said I prefer playing on the right. But I can play at a top level on both sides so I'm happy to play wherever the manager thinks it will bringing the team success.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.