I can play in six different positions where managers can trust me. It must give them food for thought knowing I can do a job in different positions.
Ashley Young
I was 11 years old and was racially abused on the pitch. It was obviously disappointing to hear it at such a young age.
I'm confident in my own ability, and if I'm called upon to play on the right, the left, or as the main striker, then I can play there.
I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.
I'm enjoying playing football, and as a footballer, that's what you want to do, and that is exactly what I've been doing.
I've had the same hunger, the same desire to win, since I started kicking a football when I was five years old.
When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.
I'm just concentrating on my football. I'm not thinking about the length of my contract.
I've always got that determination, to get back in the squad and get back playing.
I wouldn't say I've changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I'm a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it's just the hunger and desire and passion I've got for the game.
If you are in the team, there is always going to be someone biting away at your heels trying to get in.
Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.
I've always said that when you pull on an England shirt, it's a proud moment, and it's an honour to play for and represent your country.
When Martin O'Neill spent £9m on me to take me to Villa, it was a massive boost.
It is always disappointing to obviously concede.
I've always wanted to represent my country. It's an honour to do so, and whenever I get that chance, I'll keep doing it.
I've come through it and seen people in football that are sharks. They are ones to stay away from.
I'm not one of those players who talks about things off the field. It's about what trophies and titles and cups you've won.
All I can do is keep playing as well as I can for United.
There are a lot of players competing for that wide attacking role, and if I'm brutally honest, if you aren't playing regularly, you can't get picked. I found that out, missing out on the World Cup.
I'm still operating as a wide player, and I'm still free to express myself, try to get one-v-one and get past someone, and there's no better feeling than getting over a great cross and someone scoring.
Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.
I follow tennis, and I actually went to Wimbledon during the summer, and it was nice to get a day off during pre-season to watch it. Basketball as well - I don't have a team; it's just a casual interest - especially when the play-offs come around and the intensity rises.
I've been watching 'Power.' I've been hooked on it.
If I do well for my club, I will get recognition.
My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.
I had three brothers: one older, two younger.
There's a lot said now about younger players: that it's just about the cars and houses. I'm from the old school - it's about what you've achieved in the game.
Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'
We've got to rediscover the Manchester United way of playing, and I don't think many teams enjoy their nights at Old Trafford when we're on song.
It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.
I'm just the same as everyone - I can remember, growing up, watching the World Cup.
I had to go to see the careers woman at school, and when she asked me what I wanted to do after school, I told her flat: 'I want to be a professional footballer.' I can remember her being silent for a few seconds, just looking at me.
I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.
People saying I dive doesn't affect me at all. Not one bit.
I love playing football, and that's all I'm going to do.
I'm a born winner.
As you get older, you start to read the game more, and as your brain starts working more, and as you get a good footballing brain, your legs start slowing down!
I've played at a European Championship; to represent your country at a World Cup is every boy's dream, and for me, it would definitely be a dream come true.
As I've got older, the nerves aren't there anymore; they just left one day when I was at Watford. I only feel excitement now, whatever the game.
Kids ask me about what they should do to make it, and I tell them, 'Just get your head down and work, work, work.'
I had the brain for football, but I didn't have the height. So I started using my brain to overcome those weaknesses and discovered football isn't just about size or power: it's about what's up there. That was the making of me.
I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.
I'm a versatile player, can play in numerous positions, and I have a good football brain, even if it is getting older.
It's never easy in the Champions League, but you never know what can happen.
It's just determination, working hard, and keeping my feet on the ground in training and keep on proving people wrong.
There's no better feeling than coming off the pitch knowing you've won the game.
I've been a versatile player since I started playing football.
Sir Alex Ferguson has been a massive influence on me.
If I've gone to get a takeaway, and I get chips... I like to match up the chips in length. That is actually quite weird. Obviously, if I've got chips, I pick them out in twos. That's a weird thing as well. You know, if they're not the same length, well, I go hunting for the same length in chips.
