Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Mason - Page 2

I think when you lose a cup final, it's disappointing.

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

It has been difficult because I am physically there. But when it is something so sensitive, with your brain and your skull, it does probably make it a little bit easier to accept you are not going to play again, because it could be life-threatening. So that has definitely made it easier.

I have had difficult moments, I had a great network of people around me. But I feel there are people here who genuinely care about me as a human being.

I spent so long at Spurs that it's my club. If I was to become a good coach then that would be by DNA with the way they play and the way they go about things.

I can't speak on transfer value and people's stock and all that. In football things change so quickly.

Obviously it's my job, a coach's job to start giving the players a platform and start preparing, start planning.

It's difficult but I'm respecting my body - what I can do I'm doing, and what I can't do I'm not.

There were times when I just couldn't be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much for me.

Even after I retired I'd get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it's another message and I'll just ignore it, but these things shouldn't be acceptable. They aren't acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.

It's a scary moment when you're on a football pitch and realize that your life is in danger - it was a one in a million kind of thing.

Every match I watch will be bittersweet. It will always hurt, I'll always miss competing. That's what I've done my whole life and that burning desire is not just going to leave me.

It's football and anyone involved knows that you have to be prepared.

I always said to myself that when I stopped playing I would go back and coach at Tottenham.

You just have to be ready in the moment, and you have to live in the moment.

I think from day one, recovering, it is just try to be as positive as you can.

My whole life, I've been preparing for moments and you can only know how you're going to react once you're in them.

All the moments I've had in the last 10, 15 years as a player have maybe shaped me to where I am today. But the way I live my life, the way I think I want to be positive, happy, to have experiences that I can look back on.

Of course no player wants to end their career with regrets. I don't think any human being likes having regrets either.

When you've played reserve team football in front of 50 people, then you play at White Hart Lane with five or six of the same lads - it's hard to describe what that feels like.

Football, for a lot of people, is everything they have in life.

When you're very close to having your life taken away from you, it would be strange if that didn't have an effect on you.

I was in hospital for eight days and when I came home I probably slept for 18 to 20 hours a day for the first four or five weeks. Breakfast would tire me out. Just getting up to sit at the table would be exhausting. I couldn't physically do anything.

I loved football, that's all I knew.

It wouldn't surprise me in 10 to 15 years if heading wasn't involved in the game. The research and the momentum it's getting, I think it's probably going to open up a lot more stuff that becomes quite shocking.

I can't speak highly enough of Petr Cech. He's set the standards of what it is to be a proper man and a gentleman.

I'm so lucky to be alive. That's always in the back of my mind.

Tottenham were great with me.

I'm quite a positive person anyway and I realize the benefits of not trying to look at the negatives on things.

No matter how hard it got, I've always been fortunate enough, thinking I'm actually lucky to be here.' I always took that mindset.

Sometimes you have a clash of heads and it feels a bit sore, but I remember the impact was huge. I was touching my head and it felt like it was pouring with blood, but I remember looking and there was nothing on my hand. For me that was a sign it was probably quite serious.

I'd be lying if I said certain comments don't affect you. We're human beings. I had to zone out of it and had to take myself off social media as a player because I didn't want to see it.

I don't have to coach. Football is a very rewarding game at the highest level. I'm doing it because I have a passion.