Kyle Walker Quotes

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

As a footballer, you always want to get better personally. And if you get better personally, you make the team better.

By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

You see how can you help your team, help yourself improve, and that's what I try to figure out throughout the season.

I try every day to grow more and to help the team so we can do well.

As an individual I have personal ambitions - scoring goals, giving as many assists as I can but also working hard for the team and doing a job in defence as well. My 'ambitions are for the team and what we can achieve as a whole.

In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody's success.

It is my job to work with the players we have and try to improve them as a team and move the country forward.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

I want to make sure I do everything in my power to be a better teammate and player.

The best way to improve your team is to improve yourself.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

I am a forward and want to score many goals but for me that is not important. What is important is to be successful with the team.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

I try to focus on myself and focus on my team, and the individual accolades will come.

I'm just here to be a leader and work on my game, work on my jump-hooks, my low-post game and just continue to get better. That's all that matters.