Ashley Young Quotes

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great - all of those things have served me well.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.

I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

I like watching Tom Brady, not just because he's handsome - I get handsome; I understand handsome - but he's a fine leader, he's a great quarterback, and I like the team. I'm not going to apologize for that.

We had no preconceived ideas. We were on this football team to go out and win ballgames and try to win a championship, that's all. To Brian and me, it was no big deal.

I learnt that if we won, it didn't matter that I hadn't played. I had to keep working.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I always love football, but of course it's good when you win and the team is doing well.

Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.

You just go out there and try to compete and try to make a play for your teammates.

What I've learned in life is that you can't always win, especially in sport, but you can be a true champion for everything you did to get there.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

At the end of the day, you've got a job to do, and that's playing football.

Ultimately, all the fans hope for is that their team wins and that the players give their all. So if you work hard, leave everything out on the pitch and achieve good results, then these are all of the necessary ingredients to make sure you are liked.