A Quote by Jack Wilshere
Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.
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You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
I don't want anyone to get injured. It's a competition: you want to play against the best teams and the best players.
The more players who come through the academy and make it into the first team, that's what we want. Not just for the club but for the country. If they're young English players coming through, that's fantastic. I'm happy to be part of that.
I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.
What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.
If you want to become a super club you have to be ready to play against super clubs. In the past couple of years, we've seen a mentality that has emerged that our players aren't on the field to get autographs. It's an opportunity to prove what we've been shouting from the rooftops for a long time, that we've been producing quality players and we can play with the best teams in the world.
That is what happens when you play in one of the best teams in the world: you have fantastic players in your position, and you have to work hard to try and play as many minutes as you can.
It's not easy to go out and win and compete and play against the best teams, the best players in the league, and we take that very seriously.
You want to win things, you want the best players to come to Manchester United and if we're playing better and we're winning things and we're challenging for things then we're going to attract the best players.
LeBron James is one of the best players in the league - and one of the best players to ever play the game.
As the players get younger and younger, and the teams value younger players, the players' best years are when they're being paid the least.
I look back to the 1980s and 1990s, when Italian teams dominated Europe. They had maybe three players from abroad, but they were the best players in the world. That was perfect, because there was always the possibility for young Italian players to get in the team.
Ajax always bring through young players from their academy - we can't pay €20m for a player, so we make sure we develop those players and give them the opportunity to play.
What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.
I want to be remembered as, if not the best, then one of the best players ever. Not just running backs - players.
I've always felt that, in the past, there has been a teacher-pupil relationship between the management and the players. But the best teams are run in such a way that the players have a voice.
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