Jesus Navas Quotes

I want to play more minutes. I'm a player who doesn't want to stay on the bench or not in the squad.

I don't like it if I'm not part of the starting 11.

I think when you come off the bench, you know you're going to play, but you don't know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it's kind of different.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.

I never enjoyed being taken off as a striker.

Like every player, I want to start more matches.

I will never be a super sub. I want to play.

Like all players, I do not like being a substitute.

I don't want to be known as a super sub. But you have got to be ready to come off the bench and make an impact if you're not in the starting team.

Mentally, starting the game versus coming off the bench, there are different vibes.

For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

In a normal season, the sixth man always seems to get the most minutes on my team.

I think every footballer in the world wants to be on the pitch as much as possible.

Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

It's not always easy to come to the national team and be on the bench.

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.

I wanted to prove that I could be a starter. And then once I realized I was gonna be a sixth man and it wasn't gonna change, I just relished the role. I just said, 'I'm going to make it really hard on whoever it is that has to guard me these next 10-11 minutes that I'm in here.' And after a while you just create an identity.

Coming off the bench, I'm able to view the game, see how their bigs are playing. And what I bring to the table is energy. The starters go in and run their bigs for a bit. When I check in it's time to punch the clock and play hard.

I was never a super sub before I came to City. I used to play always from the beginning, and I scored a lot of goals not as a sub.

Coming off the bench behind a fine young center like Alonzo Mourning fits my style.

If it was up to me, obviously I would start every game, but that decision is up to the coach.