Jan Vertonghen Quotes

When you do what you're supposed to do and don't complain much, I think the fans, media, players and front office appreciate and respect that.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Thanks to my football experience, I know the value of team play. It is, I believe, one of the most important lessons to be learned and practiced.

I love the game of football so every time I step on the field I'm going to do me. I'm going to go hard for the guys in the locker room.

I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.

My coaches respect me - the way I come to work, practice and play.

Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.

I love the game of football, love getting better. My teammates know me, and I show them who I am in the locker room and don't change on the field.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

I always tried to be a guy that plays hard and was committed to giving his all, on and off the court. So that's something I'm really proud of.

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

In the holidays at school, I used to go training with my dad every day. I used to see the hard work that went in behind what was an unbelievable Wigan team.

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

In every team, you have to win the respect of your team-mates, working a lot and really sweat blood.

Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.

I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That's exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.