Wing Position Quotes

You've got to keep on going up and down the wing for the whole game in that wing-back role, so you obviously need a lot of stamina to do that, and I think I've got that.

I love being a wing, you can make plays there and also get down there to download the bigs so I feel that is the perfect position for me.

I prefer scoring goals, but when I am playing out on the right, I tend to come inside and provide assists, but I also like playing on the left, and I think if that is where I play, then I will have more chance of scoring - but I just hope I can help the team score goals with my assists.

I can play wing.

I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.

I'm enjoying my position on the left wing because I think I'm affecting the game more in terms of goals and assists. But I'm happy to play wherever I'm told.

For a long time at Blackburn and at Fulham last season, I was playing on the right wing. I've never seen myself as a right-winger. I could play there and come inside and try to create.

I'm not a left midfielder. I hate that position, I don't like it.

At Inter Milan, I agreed to play on the wing and didn't like it.

I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.

With Arsenal, I've been playing out wide, which is not me.

I've had so much great teaching, and I'm one of the best defensive players to ever play the game on the wing.

I've played both right-back and right wing, I can't really say if I am more comfortable in one or the other but both are fun positions for me to play.

I was not getting much time on the pitch and was in need of this time to improve and play my best football. Wenger was not prepared to give it to me. Also my position on the wing was not what I was expecting and I wasn't happy with it.

I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.

When I used to dribble, I'd be on the wing, and I'd control it with the outside of my foot - it slows the ball down.

I play the number ten role but also off the side or deeper.

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

For two or three years I played on the wing, when I went to Boulogne in 2011, I started playing in the middle as a central midfielder.