Danny Welbeck Quotes

The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I've been aware of that; that's why I've stayed and haven't wanted to retire and come back - because you skip a beat.

Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.

I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.

I know that if I am playing at an all-pro level, our defense is playing well.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

The more matches I play, the better I feel on the pitch.

When I'm healthy and competing, I'm just a different type of player. That's the type of player everyone fell in love with.

Always that's a goal with everybody who plays a pro sport is to get stronger and faster and work on things that you lack.

The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is absurd.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

I definitely have been working a lot on the mental side of my game.

If you train 12 months a year, you won't have any strength for the important games.

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

Being a great physical athlete is wonderful, and you need it at this level to be able to train and prepare accordingly. But the closer it comes time to perform, the ratio switches. When you're in camp, it's 90 percent physical and 10 percent mental. But as you get to fight night, it's the opposite.

If I am at 100 percent fitness, I do not fear any competition for places in the first 11.

Although I come from the world of swimming... my strong point is the running race, and it is the one I enjoy the most. It's where I have had a slight edge over my rivals.

I know what I need to do to keep my body in shape to last 162 games.

I had a chance to play against the USA teams when I was a player. I wasn't on any USA team but scrimmaging against them and playing against them was a highlight.

You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

To say a player is past it at 29, 30 isn't right.

I felt like the best player on the court every night in college.