Danny Ings Quotes

We are getting to the point where, like the men's game, playing football is not only a legitimate career but enables you to live really well and can perhaps even set you up for life. It will allow little girls to tell their mums and dads they want to be professional footballers and not have their dreams dismissed so easily.

At the start, you don't earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn't solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to live.

You have to remember that professional football is a job, too, and some people have to get results on the pitch to pay to live.

I think when you're not in the NFL or when you're early in your career, you don't understand how hard guys work, especially the guys that play a long time and are successful.

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

I'm happy at Real Madrid and can imagine ending my career here - if all goes well.

When I made it to the pros I wanted to be a guy who could stay in the league, be OK, do whatever I had to do to make some money and do what I do. As the years started coming, I started getting better.

Going to Leicester, suddenly, football was just my living. This was the way I was going to support my family. That is when I started to mature as a player.

I had to make a decision: am I going to go for the football or make another choice. When you play in the Dutch second division, it's not like you can live off that for your whole life.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

Thanks to football, I live a decent life.

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.

I've given it all from my combine to my pro day to my meetings with teams.

If you become their property it is much clearer for you, for the club, for everything. It was a great experience to play in three different teams, different leagues, different experiences, but if I wanted to improve I had to break this cycle and make my own way. That's why I signed this contract to come to Stoke.

It's just like any athlete, we all want a new contract. But I'm not going to stress over it. It's not the end of the world if I don't get it. If I get it, that's good.

I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.

Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I'm happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.

I'm just happy I get paid to train every day and play football. I can't ask more than that.

I wanted to be in the situation where I could have a chance to go to the NFL and be a great quarterback and take care of my family.

It would be great to play until I'm 40 like Ryan Giggs.

Some players are more concentrated on what they will do after their football career and want to make sure their lives are financially settled. I prefer to play in big teams earn a little less money and win trophies.

I'm a Chicago kid. So, of course, I'm open to playing for the Chicago Bulls if that's a team that's interested in me. At the same time, any decision that is made, it's never personal. It's always business. I have to make the right decision for me and my family.

I'm very happy to be at City, and I would like to continue there for as long as possible. It obviously depends on my health, my quality on the pitch, and if the club want me to stay. I would like to be there until the end, but the Premier League is such a hard league to play in. It is much more physical than somewhere like La Liga, so it depends.