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Certain things come naturally, and tackling wasn't one of them; I'd sometimes go a bit over the top when I was younger.
Jack Wilshere / Soccer Player
Tackling
Certain Things
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It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.
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Selected
Powers
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You need to be able to defend. It's massively important, and at Arsenal, we've sometimes been guilty of forgetting that.
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Arsenal
Guilty
Defend
Forgetting
Massively
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It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.
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Injuries
Learnt
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My family have always been West Ham fans, so growing up, I used to go and watch them, and so I was a West Ham supporter.
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Ham
Supporter
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Sometimes it's been difficult to stay positive, especially after the injuries that I've had, which have been frustrating.
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Frustrating
Injuries
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I'll take criticism. I know that's part and parcel of football. But when it's just reckless and aggressive, I don't listen.
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Aggressive
Criticism
Parcel
Reckless
Part And Parcel
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The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is absurd.
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Fitness
Absurd
Intensity
League
Levels
Premier League
Incredible
Premier
Reach
Survive
To Survive
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I'd say I was an attacking midfielder, and if you are going to be one of the best, you have to score goals and create them.
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Score
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Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!
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Class
Player
Role Models
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Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.
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Affect
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Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.
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National Team
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My perfect formation would be 4-3-3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward.
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Formation
Holding
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I realise things aren't going to go my way every week. Of course they're not. But the main thing is to give your all and enjoy.
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Main Thing
Realise
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I want to be wanted by Arsenal. I've grown up at Arsenal. I'm a homegrown player, and as long as Arsenal want me, then I'm happy.
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Arsenal
Homegrown
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I said, even when I was left out, 'I am an England fan, and I'll be supporting the boys.' It's in my blood; it's too hard not to.
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Supporting
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I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.
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Footballer
Speed
Yards
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All I think about is playing at the highest level and in the top competitions so I can measure myself against the best in the world.
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Best Myself World
Competitions
Highest Level
Measure
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When you are injured - and injured for a while - it is hard. You have to go to the training ground and watch everyone go out to play.
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Injured
Training
Training Ground
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All of a sudden, when you're injured, you realise everything revolves around your core. It's crucial for balance and absorbing impact.
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Crucial
Injured
Absorb
Realise
Revolves
Sudden
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If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain. For me an English player should play for England, really.
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England
Spain
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When you go to the training ground day after day, there's times when you don't want to do it, especially when you see all the boys go out to training.
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Training Ground
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I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.
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Premier League
Manager
Premier
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To play in the Champions League is an experience a player of 33 may not have had in his whole career. To be doing that at 18... well, it's such a bonus.
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Bonus
Champions League
Champions
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It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.
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Mentality
Tournaments
World Stage
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Being injured, coming back, playing a few games, trying to get your fitness back, getting injured again - you don't get a chance to prove what you can do.
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Fitness
Injured
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You can help build momentum in training by keeping the pace and intensity high. Make things happen in training, and then you can transfer that onto the pitch.
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Intensity
Momentum
Pace
Things Happen
Training
Onto
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To spend 17 months on the sidelines is tough for anyone, and it's hard to see everyone go out training and then to go and watch games at the Emirates Stadium.
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Sidelines
Stadium
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Look at the best dribblers in the world, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta, and the ball seems to stick to their foot, so I can work on that when I am dribbling.
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Messi
Best Work World
Best Work Look
Foot
Lionel
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I'm probably the worst fantasy league player ever. I don't really score that often, and I get booked quite a lot as well - when you get booked, you lose points.
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Score
Booked
Quite A Lot
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When I was 18 or 19, I would come into training, and I'd be the last in and first out. I was one of those that took everything for granted, and I'm honest about that now.
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Granted
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I've been in tournaments before when you've been away for a while, and you're not really playing, you're just training. Sometimes you can feel like you're not really part of it.
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Tournaments
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Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just enjoyed coming in every day and playing; then it was taken away from me.
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Injuries
Natural Thing
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In 10 years' time I still want to be at Arsenal, winning trophies for my club and for the national team as well. I've been there since I was nine or 10. It feels like I've always been there, the club's been great to me and I feel I owe them that to be there and to stay around.
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Team
Winning
Years
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The best player I ever played with is probably Cesc Fabregas. I only got to play with him for a year before he went back to Barcelona, but I learned so much from him - the way he knew what he was going to do with the ball before he got it and his passing - and he scored goals.
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Barcelona
Passing
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I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.
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Champions League
Premier League
Champions
Premier
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