Nicolas Anelka Quotes

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

If you play for Manchester United, you have to be strong.

I'm used to playing in the Premier League now. I'm confident, and all my team-mates are confident with me.

It's very difficult to pick a 17-year-old who's had 10 minutes of first-team football. You're talking about replacing senior players with some 17-year-olds who haven't played Premier League football.

Football will always be about the results because if you are winning and taking good results you are not asking me about the young players.

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.

It is a normal thing for a young player to want to prove himself in the Premiership.

A winning mentality does not come in one day. I'm sure that every single player at Arsenal wants to win, but it is coming to the moment when you need to play really bad games and win 1-0.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

Me being at Coventry, instead of a big Premier League club, probably helped me develop. You don't get put in the academy system, playing Under-18s and Under-23s.

When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed off of that.

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

When you're in youth development, you have to develop players - win or come in second. But the job where I am and the reality of our industry is to win to be successful, and that is what I have to do. I have to be successful, and I want to be successful, so we'll do everything we can do to win.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

Naturally this is football, and in big teams it is not easy to play every game.

Real are the type of club where you are expected to win every game. For a player who wants to be the best it is stimulating to feel the pressure to defend their interests.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.