James Maddison Quotes

The Champions League is massive. I've had so much experience. I'm only 23, and yet I've played so much in the Champions League, and not many players my age would have had that experience.

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

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.

I went away with Scotland because I was trying to get some game-time somewhere but it just wasn't working out with Scotland, the results weren't happening.

I wasn't getting a lot of game-time at Liverpool, you guys could see that. I was just playing cup games and stuff like that.

Spain and England have great leagues, and it would be nice to play there when the time comes.

When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.

Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that

In my career, there've been three stages really. There's been the stage when you come into a team, you don't feel the nerves, you just go out and play. Then through your 20s you start thinking a lot more about the games and what's at stake. And then, as you get more experienced towards the end of your career, you enjoy it a lot more and you're a lot more relaxed.

I started out as a defender. I played as a full-back, and then I moved into the centre. I played defence right the way through until the Under-18s. Honestly!

Going to Leicester, suddenly, football was just my living. This was the way I was going to support my family. That is when I started to mature as a player.

I grew up at Real Madrid and played there a long time.

I have grown a lot as a player and I have to thank Conte for helping in my development.

I've learnt more in two years at Juventus than in my entire life.

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.

I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.

For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

When I moved from Metz to Monaco, we reached an advanced stage in the Champions League, and we played against Real Madrid. It was one of most beautiful days of my life because I was lucky enough to get a signed shirt from the football legend Zinedine Zidane.

With time, you do get mature.

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

Obviously, at Manchester United, I want to be working hard, and I have been doing that ever since I was a young kid.

I was 14 when I arrived at Real Sociedad. No team wanted me in France. I trialled for around eight clubs, and then Real came.

One lives every World Cup differently, mostly because one's age changes.