Phil Neville Quotes

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I owe everything to Spain - that's where I learned to write, to read, and to play football.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

I'm young and I have a lot of experience and I learn quickly.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

Every new project, every new team and everything teaches you with something which you haven't learnt or done before.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.