Wales Quotes

My friends and family keep me grounded.
Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.
Once you win something, yeah, you enjoy it. But then it's on to the next game.
Playing with and for the best can only help you to improve.
The most important thing is to not waste your money.
The one player I have looked up to since I was a kid is Ryan Giggs.
There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
To represent your country is a massive honour.
When I go on a pitch, I just try to enjoy it as much as I can. The more you enjoy it, the better you play.
When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
When you're a sub, it's a game of more than 11 players starting the game.
Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
Whenever we're playing in front of a Welsh crowd, they really do give you that extra bit to get the win.
You've just got to keep working hard, keep plugging along. That's how great teams win more trophies.
You've just got to listen to what experienced people are telling you. You've obviously got to listen to what they want you to do in training and in matches and commit to improving every aspect of your game.
A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.
Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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Alan Cranston
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