Chris Smalling Quotes

Those years in Denmark changed my game and how I played football.

It's a good thing to interact with a top goalkeeper who has so much experience in the Premier League.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

Everyone knows Jose Mourinho is a fantastic manager.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

My process to adapt to English football has been very good.

I played for Arsenal for more than three years, and I had fantastic moments. Maybe they made me one of the best strikers in the world, because under Arsene Wenger, I learned a lot of things - but you have to move on.

I'm going to have to get used to the pace of the Premier League and the technical side of it. I had a little taste of it at Hull before they were relegated in 2017, but I've developed a lot as a player since then.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

I was very young in the past at Arsenal, at Real Madrid as well.

At Ajax, Juventus, and with Holland, I have played with top teams, and now I want to use my experience to reach the same goal with Fulham.

We had a great staff in college, so after I got to the league, I'd already seen stuff I knew. Then it was enhanced, playing the game with great guys like Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Chris McAlister.

I was a very good dribbler as a young player, but now that I've got more experience, there are some useless things that I don't do anymore.

The Premier League has forced me to develop different skills.

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

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

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

As you progress high school, college into the league, you can tell the difference between quarterbacks with their timing and the way the ball comes out of their hand.

You can see the players are world-class just by the way they pass the ball. Ozil, Sanchez, and Cazorla, for example, are huge personalities. Even though the club maybe spent more money on me, I can still learn a lot from them in any respect.

If I stay in Roma, I can still improve. If I go back to Arsenal, I will treasure my experience in Italy.