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“Growing up I wasn't always the toughest kid.”
“You know, when you grow up through the Academy, you don't necessarily think about 300 games later into your career. You're only thinking, 'I'm focusing on that first one' really.”
“Every team goes through a blip in the season where they struggle a little bit.”
“I want to give myself the best chance possible and set really high standards in everything I do.”
“I found that I skip and jump when I strike the ball and it helps to get it up and over. If you look at lots of different players, like Gerrard plants his standing foot, Beckham is laid back and keeps his feet on the floor to get that extra whip.”
“Even as a youngster, my dad put me into one-on-one coaching with Tony Mount, Mason's dad, and Mason would come along and we'd have a session together to toughen us up.”
“Dad took me to football but there was never any sense I would follow him.”
“I've seen a few still images of my body and the way I am when I strike the ball and it baffles me a little bit. You think: 'I'm putting stress on my body, I shouldn't be able to walk some days if I've taken 10 free-kicks in a row.' But I've just adapted my body to deal with it.”
“I want to start every game I can.”
“If you want to be the best, you get that one chance in a game to put the ball in the net, you have to put in the extra hours and extra work.”
“I try and use disappointments to fuel that fire within me to make sure I learn from that situation and I improve.”
“There are certain scenarios in a game and you have to take yourself out of the situation and see what is best at that time.”
“Starting out when I was a kid, I always liked taking free-kicks and now you're going up towards the top where the greats are, so of course it's a nice feeling to have.”
“Growing up a lot of my friends were Portsmouth fans, but that's the way football goes and that's the career path that I chose.”
“I've studied videos of Beckham as well and he's someone I do look to compare myself to in terms of set-piece deliveries.”
“I've had different managers and been in and out of the team.”
“I remember facing Paul Scholes in my third Premier League appearance. He came on when we were 2-1 up and changed the game. His passing, his decision-making - you couldn't get near him.”
“I want to get away from that perception of being the Southampton academy boy. That's not what I want to be any more.”
“One of the things I got asked is how I deal with the frustration and the bad times and I said it's about having a vision and a goal of where you want to be in life.”
“That's why football fans tune in, because you like seeing the teams at the bottom scrapping out against the top teams, and equally the top teams having to fend off the lower teams in order to achieve their goals.”