Alex Oxlade Chamberlain Quotes

I'm so excited to be joining Arsenal. It's a fantastic club, and I'm really looking forward to the opportunity of playing football at the highest level.
I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.
I've grown up playing in central midfield more, and I think my natural game is about coming inside from wide.
I've had loads of kicks over the years, and I'm not really too fussed about them. I get kicked, and I don't like to roll around or anything. I like to get back up pretty quickly, even if it hurt.
I've played on the wing in some games and found myself in the middle for five or 10 minutes when others drift wide. It's about creating chances, scoring goals and helping the team win.
I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.
If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.
If I've had a bad game, I know I've had a bad game, and I don't mind hearing it.
If there's a shot on, I like to take the opportunity as well, and I like passing the ball - which is one of the reasons I came to Arsenal. But I'm a player that likes to come up with an end product - whether that's a goal, an assist, or helping the team to get good results.
If you are good friends with someone, you get to know them better and their strengths and weaknesses. You have that respect for each other, and you learn the way one another play.
In my head, I was like any young kid: 'I'm going to be a footballer.' But at the same time, my mum and dad were making me do my schoolwork, and that was important.
In the long run, it's probably better to tie yourself down to one position and really become established in one area to be as good as you can in that position.
It takes time to settle in and learn a new formation and style of play.
It's a mutual respect, especially a player like Neymar, a player of a similar age to me and someone I've got massive respect for what he's done in world football.
It's important for any player to be versatile enough to be able to play in different positions.
It's nice when you know the crowd are on your side. I can only repay them by working my hardest when I do get on and trying to impress them.
Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.
My dad always pushes me, tries to make me do better, and maybe that's what gets the best out of me. He's tried to instil that in me.
My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.
My dad had a spell when he came out of coaching doing some work with underprivileged children on quite a rough council estate in Southampton to help the kids and take them out to places. I used to go along with him. I used to play football with them, mess about with them. I was only 13 or 14 and became good friends with them.
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