Ashley Young Quotes

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.

The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

As I always say - you have no feelings when you are on the pitch. You are there to play, to give the best for your team.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

I'm not a player any more, I'm a fan, and I want to see somebody who wants to win and wants to fight.

I try to show a little bit of excitement, only when I'm on the court, but off the court I'm just chill.

We think game by game.

It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.

I'm confident I can show exactly what I'm about, how much I care about football, and how I'd do anything to win.

I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.

You can't let emotions get involved with what the common goal is: to win. At the end of the day, that's what it's all about.

If it's a card game, or it's a preseason game, or it's a regular season game, I just go out there to try to win. For me, that's all I know how to do it and I'll never change that.

Ever since third grade - I never even noticed it until after the game - people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I'm so locked in when I'm playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we're up 20 or 30 and I'm on the bench. But when I'm in the game, I don't hear him.

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.