Javier Mascherano Quotes

You've just got to listen to what experienced people are telling you. You've obviously got to listen to what they want you to do in training and in matches and commit to improving every aspect of your game.

Opportunity 7-on-7 is a great chance for me to maximize my reps.

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

I want to be a better player, and there is no other way of showing it other than on the pitch. It is not a question of which team I play for.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

Day-to-day training with world-class players, there is no better feeling than that.

The players often show much more qualities in training than we do in games.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

In training, I work hard to make the starting line-up, and I try to do my best to be picked.

In football, there's always room for improvement.

Talent is what wins games.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

There are things you can do in training like learn from the manager and talk with team-mates, but it's the game that tests you.

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

I just gotta go out there and play basketball the way I know how to.

I hope to become a great player.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.