Phil Neville Quotes

Day-to-day training with world-class players, there is no better feeling than that.

One of the biggest challenge for me is when you have Mo Salah and Sadio Mane at the training ground. Then you know where you are.

That is what all the top players do and if you want to be the best you know you are going to get marked.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

Going into your rookie year, whatever team does take you, and you get to camp, there's going to be a lot of talent in that gym. You're going to walk in a gym - and no matter what - there's going to be a lot of talent.

If you want to be a big player and play for a big club, you have to deal with the pressure.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

I want to become a world-class player.

You want to play in the big games, you want to play for a big club and to play with pressure.

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

I'm accustomed to pressure. It's what we, as players, live. If you don't want pressure, then football is not for you.

As players we know pressure is part and parcel of what we do.

Coaches often sting me to get the best of me. I am used to it.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

I've always believed that training with great players makes you a better player.

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

Top athletes are like warriors.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.