Top 45 Ryan Mason Quotes

It was a big impact. I fractured the skull and it shattered into quite a few pieces. The plates I’ve had inserted will be there permanently, along with the screws.

I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for them to be given the opportunity and the time as well, there is plenty of talent out there.

There’s always another press conference, another training session and more videos to watch.

I don’t think kids should be heading real balls.

I don’t really like singling out players but it’s hard not to.

Between 18 and 21, a lot of people said I needed to put on weight.

It’s not easy to win every game.

To have had the honor of captaining the team fills me with immense pride.

I was in hospital for eight days and when I came home I probably slept for 18 to 20 hours a day for the first four or five weeks. Breakfast would tire me out. Just getting up to sit at the table would be exhausting. I couldn’t physically do anything.

For me it’s pretty simple to diagnose concussion on a football pitch. If there’s any doubt about it, then in my eyes, they should take the player off the pitch.

I worked with Mauricio Pochettino and even as a player, he had certain mannerisms and his body language. There was so much to learn from.

It’s a scary moment when you’re on a football pitch and realize that your life is in danger – it was a one in a million kind of thing.

I want us to be brave and aggressive and play like Tottenham Hotspur.

No matter how hard it got, I’ve always been fortunate enough, thinking I’m actually lucky to be here.’ I always took that mindset.

I am and always will be eternally grateful for the incredible network of people around me who have helped me to recover from what was a life-threatening injury in January 2017.

All the moments I’ve had in the last 10, 15 years as a player have maybe shaped me to where I am today. But the way I live my life, the way I think I want to be positive, happy, to have experiences that I can look back on.

I’m a Tottenham player and am determined to go back into pre-season as fit as possible with the aim of impressing the gaffer to try and establish myself in the team.

I’d be lying if I said certain comments don’t affect you. We’re human beings. I had to zone out of it and had to take myself off social media as a player because I didn’t want to see it.

There’s always speculation around the best players.

I don’t have to coach. Football is a very rewarding game at the highest level. I’m doing it because I have a passion.

In England there’s a philosophy that it’s better to be bigger and stronger. I was in the gym doing bench-presses which had no relevance and it wasn’t helping me on the pitch. It was extra weight I didn’t need and I couldn’t carry. A lot of injuries came through that.

I have had difficult moments, I had a great network of people around me. But I feel there are people here who genuinely care about me as a human being.

It’s important that we have the right mentality because it’s not easy to win games in the Premier League.

When you’ve played reserve team football in front of 50 people, then you play at White Hart Lane with five or six of the same lads – it’s hard to describe what that feels like.

I was a luxury player. Having been pampered at Tottenham for so long, I went into League One and had to graft and learn the ugly side of the game. I grew as a player.

Even after I retired I’d get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it’s another message and I’ll just ignore it, but these things shouldn’t be acceptable. They aren’t acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.

It’s difficult but I’m respecting my body – what I can do I’m doing, and what I can’t do I’m not.

It’s important to bring young players through if they’re good enough.

We want to play nice football but there are times in games and situations where you can’t do that, and you have to come together and be solid.

That’s all hypothetical – if we win, if we do this.’ I’ve said all along my only focus is on the next game, I’m really not silly enough to starting thinking ahead of certain situations.

If you have got a seven- or eight-year-old heading a solid ball, and his brain and his bone in his skull isn’t fully developed, then that could potentially be doing damage.

Harry Kane is one of the most professional guys I’ve ever seen or come across in my life.

There were times when I just couldn’t be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much for me.

Of course no player wants to end their career with regrets. I don’t think any human being likes having regrets either.

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

There’s plenty of points to play for in the Premier League.

I think every season in pre-season you go into it and everyone is saying, ‘they’ll be strong next season,’ but you never know.

Obviously I’ve had some injuries and it’s kept me out of the team for quite a long time and it’s always difficult to have long spells on the sidelines and then try to get back into the team.

I’ve always felt a massive connection with the fans. I’ve always felt loved.

I loved football, that’s all I knew.

There are not many managers in the Premier League willing to put homegrown players in and trust them.

My opinion may be different to many, but I think Oliver Skipp is an incredible talent and one of the most professional guys I have come across in the academy.

A trophy is always welcome, especially after many years without one.

I want to be positive. I want to be happy. I want to work hard and enjoy the moment and have experiences to look back on when I’m older.

It’s very difficult in the Premier League to win three, four, five games in a row.