Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Smalling - Page 2

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

Whether it's the Premier League or the Champions League, I can showcase my abilities.

When you have come from the bottom and worked your way to the top, you are more grateful.

When someone like Lukaku gets you in the position where he's holding you off it is key to try and nick it in front of him.

With United the spotlight is always on and there's always going to be that pressure, no matter what the game is.

I liked business studies and economics at school and it followed on from there.

I've always been a centre-half, to be honest.

I quite like being aggressive and horrible which gives you more confidence to dictate over strikers and to make them feel they have had a frustrating game when they've walked off the pitch, feeling very down.

My mum tried her best. Now I try to make her life as enjoyable as I can because she has done so much for my brother and me.

I have a collage of pictures of my dad holding my brother and me. I look at that before every game just to remind me about having no fear or regrets and to go out and enjoy the moment, because I know how precious life is.

All of us are professionals and no player wants not to play.

When you've got the experienced players around you who've won countless trophies and titles between them, you want to rise to them.

Ultimately it's your club form that decides whether you play at a World Cup because there aren't many England games throughout the season.

It is nice to hear yourself being compared to great players.

A lot of successful teams are based on having two or three solid partners that rarely change.

Football Beyond Borders is about learning, establishing new beliefs in an ability to succeed.

Ultimately, what you're feeding yourself has a bearing on how you're going to perform.

You work every day technically, physically but so much is in the mind. Look at when players go on big scoring runs, then stop scoring. It's not that they are any different physically, it's very often mental, confidence, concentration.

We have to take a greater stand against discrimination of all kinds.

My mum and brother are so proud of me.

People might think it's all about getting up for a game but it's often the opposite.

I like to get the ball down and play, but I can always get stuck in and hold my own.

You can put too much pressure on yourself. You can start forcing balls, maybe trying too hard. You make things too complicated.

I've had many setbacks.

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple of trials, but it wasn't a realistic dream, it was a kid's dream.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

I didn't know too many people in life, not just in sports but in life, that were vegan, so it was something that I had to educate myself on fully before I could, one, do it myself, and, two, talk to others about it.

My wife is vegan and has been for a few years.

It doesn't matter whether it's the 93rd minute, Giggsy is making his jinky, mazy little runs. You could forgive him for maybe not coming out training every day, because he's done so much in the game, but every day he's out there. He doesn't seem to need a rest.

I had nothing to lose at my Fulham trial and I just gave it my all.

If they want to kick the ball up in the air, I will challenge all day long.

Even before I joined Manchester United, I knew of Wazza as a hard worker.

Van Gaal is receptive to other people's ideas.

I liked Thierry Henry. I watched Arsenal so much on TV.

As a patron of a youth education charity it is my duty to use my platform as a voice for all, regardless of background.

Nobody wants to train every day so the more games the better.

I was born in London but, after my dad passed away, we moved to Kent for a fresh start.

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

As I've got older I've become a lot more conscious of my diet and making sure I was getting all the right things.