Shaun Wright-Phillips Quotes

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

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I think you have to recognise where you are as a player. I knew I had to go out to learn - to sit around at Liverpool wasn't going to do me any good.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

Whatever happens happens, but learning from the players at Chelsea is a great experience.

I believe that I've improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

I wouldn't undervalue my year under Pep Guardiola because I think I made a big step forward in that year.

Playing at a club like Chelsea and being given the opportunity to play with the world-class players that we have means you can learn from them and improve your game.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

As a player, I was very lucky to have so many good managers in my career. I remember the first two at Lecce: Eugenio Fascetti and Carlo Mazzone. They were very important for me and my growth.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

You learn a lot from quality players.

I have grown a lot under Ancelotti. He got the best out of me.

Since I left Atleti, I have improved my game with my feet considerably, and I have matured a lot as a person.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.