Patrick Kane Quotes

I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.

To improve my free throws I went back to the mechanics and really learning how to have form and shoot the ball, so I have to get comfortable with that.

Many alleged top players can and have still to learn.

I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you'll probably have a good match!

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

Rita Guarino is one of the best technical coaches I have had in my career - often she demonstrates a specific technique and shows the players up!

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

Scottie's game changed with where he was at physically. He wasn't the same player at 21 as he was at 30. Both he and Michael aged gracefully in this league and that's the beauty of being a professional player. You continue to grow and continue to change your game, but you do it to be just as effective.

I have matured as a player and learnt to perform under different situations.

For a lot of guys in this league, it's confidence - once they play a year or two, they start to figure it out.

Bielsa certainly had his own methods. He brought in laptops and showed us videos of where to be on the pitch in terms of position. They were strange little things, but that's why we learnt a lot under him.

Liverpool followed me for a long time. When I arrived in the offices there, they showed me cassettes of me in the Under-15s. Everyone knew me. I couldn't believe it.

There's a lot of players who you can pick up some stuff from, not just only full-backs or defenders. Even training with the top players every week you can get good things from all of them.

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

I'm planning to go watch tape to see what D-Wade did when he played with LeBron. I need to learn how to be effective out there with him.

That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.

I've really grown as a player, becoming versatile, able to do multiple things offensively.

You learn a lot from quality players.

Sometimes players just take a little while to develop.

I am sure my own game is improving by playing in Serie A.

I'm always looking for advice on how to get better as a person and as a player.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.