Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Phil Jones - Page 2

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

I will do anything I can to improve myself.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

I didn't want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had to do that at the start.

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.

I don't think any training session can get you ready for a game in the Premier League, never mind playing against Liverpool.

Those 12 o'clock kick-offs can be good if you win as then you've got the rest of the day to celebrate and enjoy it. On the other hand, if you lose, it's not a nice feeling. You spend the rest of the day mithering about the game and going over it in your mind for the next eight hours.

I've said all along from day one centre-back is the position I feel most comfortable in but if I'm asked to play right-back or midfield I'll go and do a job there.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

It always helps to play every game at the back with the same players. You get a good understanding of each other and how one of you works, and what positions to take up.

I want to become the best I can be and be at my best for a good number of years.

It's always nice to play in the position you feel most comfortable in.

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

England is nice. I always said that if I was playing games for United consistently and playing well I'd have a chance of getting back in.

It is nice to be playing and involved.

It was brilliant when I heard of United's interest, an incredible feeling.

My understanding of the game has improved. The technical side has improved. All round I have improved in leaps and bounds at United. I learn something every day in training here and I am just loving it.

I am not a player who goes on mazy runs - I like to defend. I like to do a job for the team.

I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.

I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

People have different opinions. They are entitled to that and as professionals we get on with it and forget about it and concentrate on what we do on the pitch.

That is all you can ask, for a manager to be honest and tell you how things are.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

I have always said that if I get a run of games and stay fit I know what I am capable of.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn't the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

I love playing football so I want to play as many as I can.

Zlatan has been fantastic. He's one of the best characters I've played with.

When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.

He's Wayne Rooney - a good character and a lively character,He's been very helpful and understanding and has certainly made me feel welcome at international level and on club duty. He's a fantastic player and you can only learn from him. It's great to have him around.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.