Thibaut Courtois Quotes

When I left City I was still young and there was a lot for me to learn in all parts of my game. To come back and have learned something at a place like Chelsea is down partly to the kind of players I played alongside.

Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

I'm maturing as a person and as a player.

With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

A lot of things, experiences I had, helped me to grow up and mature, both in terms of my football career and my private life too.

When you get traded, the first thing you have to do is self-reflect and think about how you can get better. It has only helped me become a better player and think the game through.

Every single year is a year for me to take a look at how I've grown and how I can get better and better myself as a football player as a receiver and just as an overall team player.

I want to use my time here at Arsenal to develop my strengths.

I learned a lot in my last year at Livingston and even more since coming to Leeds, as a player and on the sports science side.

If you play sports, use sports. So many of our kids get used by the game and then get nothing out of it. Use it as a tool to open up other doors that you want to open in life.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.