Michael Carrick Quotes

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

I had in mind a long career.

I am hoping for a long career.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

I want to have a long career.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

You know what, I didn't see myself being an executive producer.

Everybody has a different goal and a way of planning his/her career.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm definitely going to put it out there.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, 'I want to be a Premier League manager one day'. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

For the moment, I haven't ended my career. I'm young. There are still a lot of goals.

It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.