Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.

I'd been at Chelsea for a while and progressed quite quickly until I got to the first team, and then it was different. I was used to playing every minute of every game, but when you get to that level, the step up is massive. There are world-class players in front of you, and no matter how talented you are, breaking in is difficult.

I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to understand how difficult it is to be there without being there. To enter a match knowing you do not have the confidence of the coach. To play when you simply don't have the habit of playing.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

It's hard because, throughout your whole career, you're known as the top player, the best on your team, you're playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don't know when you're going to get in the game.

It's tricky because obviously when you join a new club, from the very first day, everyone looks at you and tries to see if you are good enough. That's more or less what you have to go through. Then the other thing is that when I signed for West Ham nobody told me I was going to be number one.

Tempers flare at times. That's what good teams do: they react to things and go out there and leave it all on the field.