A biography for Phil Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“That is all you can ask, for a manager to be honest and tell you how things are.”
“Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'”
“I am not one who needs to be patted on the back every single day and told I am brilliant. Some players need that, I don't.”
“I will do anything I can to improve myself.”
“I want to stop goals going in the net.”
“I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.”
“Football's football, it can change very quickly. I know that, I've experienced that many times.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Success for Manchester United is winning the Premier League, adding another trophy and having another good cup run is another one.”
“It's the striker's job to put the ball in the net and it's up to us to make important tackles and blocks.”
“Own goals happen to the best of players.”
“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.”
“Winning the league is obviously something you dream of as a kid.”
“We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.”
“My mates send me pictures every single night on the Whatsapp group taking the mick out of me. It's banter, it is what it is. It doesn't bother me.”
“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.”
“Being at United in my first season has really given me an insight into the passion and drive the club has.”
“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.”
“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.”