Jack Wilshere Quotes

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

At Chelsea, there's more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.

I prefer Liverpool. The way we play is good for all of our players.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

There are many talented midfielders but not the kind of playmaker I am.

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.

When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.

I like to be in the box where it happens, to score goals or give assists.

I like the Premier League; the style of play, I like it.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

Manchester United isn't about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team, the club.

In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it's like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You're still in your shape for every drill.

Growing up I've been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn't say if I'm most comfortable there but that's where I grew up playing.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

When I was a child, I was an Arsenal fan.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.