Paul Scholes Quotes

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.

Everyone in the Premier League feels pressure to get results. It is part of being a footballer.

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

Whether you play or whether you're on the bench, or however it may be, at some point in your career you will be one of those three roles. You will either be a young, up-and-coming goalkeeper watching the experienced one, you'll either be on the bench or you'll be in goal yourself.

I learned so much during my time at United. Sharing a dressing room with Paul Scholes, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Ryan Giggs at such a young age was an amazing experience. I didn't play as much as I would have liked, but it was a master's degree in development both as a player and a person.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

At Arsenal and the so-called big clubs, you always know that there will be a bigger spotlight on every single position.

I had a lot of doubt coming into my career about being an elite point guard in this league.

In training, for example, when you feel your position on the team is in danger then you have to be fully focused.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.

When you play for Barcelona, there is always pressure to win - you play for something special. It's the same when you player for Tottenham; the names are not important.

If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.

When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.

After one season, I know how well I have to play to keep playing for Manchester United.

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.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.