James Milner Quotes

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

I had my father on the Under-21 team and during the World Cup in France in 1998 - and also in AC Milan for four months. So it was a weird experience, because having your father as a coach is pretty weird, and I was the captain. But he was great.

I was lucky enough to play with great platers Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Darren Lockyer and that's where I learned about leadership.

As a team-mate, the one who taught me the most was undoubtedly Fabio Cannavaro.

Some guys go to different teams and as they get older, they just want to ride the coattail of the younger guys. I don't want to do that.

I am 25 years old, but I think I gained a lot of experience with PSG, and I think I can help Tottenham.

I was a young player at Real, but working with players like Zidane and Beckham every day taught me such a lot: how you win and lose as a team and how you must respect your team-mates.

When he was a player, I was always close to Jim Fregosi.

I sit next to Drogba in the dressing room. I listen all the time because he gives advice.

Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I learned to respect and appreciate more than I did Chuck Knox.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.