Welcome to the world of Shaun Wright-Phillips, where passion for football meets the eloquence of words. Shaun Wright-Phillips, a former professional English footballer renowned for his electrifying pace and dazzling skills on the pitch, also possesses a knack for inspiring and insightful quotes. From the highs of victory to the lows of defeat, Wright-Phillips has articulated his experiences and reflections in a manner that resonates with fans and aspiring athletes alike. Whether it’s about perseverance, teamwork, or the sheer joy of playing the beautiful game, his words have the power to motivate and uplift.
This page is dedicated to capturing the essence of Shaun Wright-Phillips through his memorable quotes. Here, you’ll find a collection of his thoughts and musings on football, life, and everything in between. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your own journey in sports, looking for a boost of motivation, or simply appreciate the art of storytelling through quotes, you’re in the right place. Explore the wisdom and passion encapsulated in Shaun Wright-Phillips’ words, and let his quotes ignite your own aspirations and ambitions.
Well, I like cars. Just because you have two it doesn’t make you flash. Shaun Wright-Phillips
It’s really great to see all the people who’ve become involved in building up the Premier League, especially in the States. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I first came up under Joe Royle and when Keegan took over it was even better for me because I felt his style added more to my game. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I am strong minded, a believer that you can make things happen if you really want it that badly. Shaun Wright-Phillips
The fact that on the day I came back to City we stayed in the UEFA Cup through a last-minute own goal against Midtjylland and then won a dramatic penalty shoot-out made me smile. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Keegan was definitely an attack-minded manager and at times for a fan it must have been crazy because it was entertaining but at the same time we were quite open and conceded goals as well. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Mourinho was good; a very good family man. If people had children and there were days we had to come in he would let you bring kids in and mess about with them while the training session was going on. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Yes, when the time comes for me to hang up my boots, I would love to stay and work with the City coaching staff. It would be great to give something back like that. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Representing your country is a highlight in everybody’s career. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I want to show people I can play. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I’m not one to give up fighting. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I think my best spell in terms of personal performance was in 2004 – but the best team was under Mark Hughes with Elano. Shaun Wright-Phillips
In any footballer’s head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Only players can understand what it’s like, travelling and playing every three days, it gets on top of you. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I’m always learning and you are never too old to stop learning new things and improve your game. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Ideally, you want a defender with Premier League experience. Shaun Wright-Phillips
On a personal level, I never worry – I’m always up for the challenge, especially at City, and will keep my head down and work as hard as I can to play as often as I can. Shaun Wright-Phillips
You can always get better and always improve so that’s what I do. Shaun Wright-Phillips
If you are hurting inside, you can’t really show it because you want the team to do well because that’s part of football. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I would love to retire a City player and I have my fingers crossed it is something that can still happen. When I did leave in 2005, I broke down crying on the way to sign for Chelsea, but back then, we needed the money my sale brought in. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I’ve never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I think, as a fan, when you are sitting there in the stadium you want to be on the edge of your seat. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I never try to prove anybody wrong. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Shaun Wright-Phillips
In football there’s passion so you have lifelong fans, they bring their sons up, their grandchild comes. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I just want to play football. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I am not a person to quit. If something needs harder work then I will put my head down and do it. Shaun Wright-Phillips
City have always had families coming to watch them and we should always stick to that, but try to get other people interested too. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I like playing on the right because it favours me as it is my natural side. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Playing for England in Spain was really hard but racism is still in the game, which it shouldn’t be. I think when you’re playing the best thing to do is block it out like you do with everything else. Shaun Wright-Phillips
The only thing Chelsea and Manchester City have in common is the fact that both clubs have a lot of money. Shaun Wright-Phillips
In a game I’m, like, ‘Rubber Man’ or something but, off the pitch, I’m the least flexible person you could imagine. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I left for Chelsea to learn new things, at a new club with new players. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Everyone knows what a great player, as well as a person, David Beckham is. I am just hoping that I can learn from him. I know if I want to go far in my football career I have to do as well as him. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I don’t want any QPR fans to feel I am short-changing them. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I remember so many times, playing for City in which Man United would give us a whooping, and the fans always stood beside us. Shaun Wright-Phillips
There is definitely an argument that Sergio Aguero is the Premier League’s best ever striker. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Football works in mysterious ways. Shaun Wright-Phillips
City is a very family-oriented club. Chelsea is in the centre of London, there is a different crowd following them, maybe more business people go to watch them. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Everybody manages differently and as far as I’m concerned the results are the only thing that counts. Shaun Wright-Phillips
My dad’s helped me a lot as a player, encouraged me in all the right ways, kept me focussing on the right lines. Shaun Wright-Phillips
All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Once everyone gets a taste of one trophy, it could set off an effect. People will get the hunger, and just want more and more. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Even when I was growing up and playing with friends I used to get kicked. Shaun Wright-Phillips
At a club like City, you cannot forget about the kids that have come through and are still emerging from the academy. We can’t forget about them and we should always keep that in mind with an eye to the future. Shaun Wright-Phillips
It’s nice to know your manager has faith in you. Shaun Wright-Phillips
If you’re a footballer there will be certain silly people in the world who try to set you down. But just focus on your football. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I have no regrets whatsoever about coming back to City. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Quite simply, I want to play at City for the rest of my life. Shaun Wright-Phillips
If its proven that there’s racial abuse, the team’s fans where there’s abuse should quit the game as a loss and the result should go to the winner basically. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I know from Chelsea that it’s not about one or two brilliant performances. It is also about winning different types of matches. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I’m not the sort of person to entertain doubts or dwell on negative comments from other people in any case. Shaun Wright-Phillips
It’s not so much frustrating, it’s just that if you don’t know when you are going to play, how do you focus on a game? That’s part of football, though, and if you are going to be at a big club you have to deal with it. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Carrying the ball is one of the strongest points in my game and I like to be a danger on the pitch. Shaun Wright-Phillips
What everybody talks about is their own problem, to be honest with you. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I wouldn’t particularly say I liked rugby but it got us playing football. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I ain’t flash. I’m just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Criticism is part of football. Everybody gets it at some point. I have had it, most players do. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Obviously, I know there are players here who earn more than twice what I do. But that’s not the issue for me. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I prefer getting a lot of the ball. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I worked under Jose Mourinho, a manager who taught me new things and stressed I should believe in myself. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I think Callum Hudson-Odoi can go to the top. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I saw U.A.E. play at the London Olympics for the first time and I was really impressed with how they played against the likes of Great Britain and Uruguay. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I wouldn’t say Pulisic is there to fill Hazard’s boots. It’s not fair to put that load on him. He’s there to bring another way of playing for Chelsea and he will create his own footprints basically and build his own legacy there at the Bridge. He is definitely a player the fans will like. In America he is rated very, very highly. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I like the way Pulisic plays. I have kept an eye on him from when I was in the United States. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Express yourself in any way possible. Shaun Wright-Phillips
You look at someone like Jadon Sancho, he took the chance of going abroad to get more game time and now he’s possibly up there with the top players, wingers, in the world. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I get kicked every game, it’s part of football, I just try to get on with it. Shaun Wright-Phillips
If you let in a goal, you don’t sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away. Shaun Wright-Phillips
It’s always going to have meaning if you can help your brother achieve his targets. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I am never not going to want to play for England so I don’t care how old I am. If I am doing well I hope I am going to get picked. Shaun Wright-Phillips
That’s the downside of playing for one of the top teams: that no matter how well you play, sometimes you have to step aside. Shaun Wright-Phillips
If I am on the pitch then I am happy. Shaun Wright-Phillips
At City I went back there on the basis of playing for manager Mark Hughes. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I don’t read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I just want to give 110 per cent and do the best I can when I’m used. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Sometimes it’s about gritting in and getting the results. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I’ve never been able to touch my toes. Seriously, never. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I don’t want to bring my kid to a stadium and sit next to somebody who is shouting racist chants, because it’s going to make kids think that it’s okay to do it. It’s not only affecting players, but it is affecting kids that are growing up now, and are going to be bringing their kids in future. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Chelsea are a massive family, that is the great thing about the club. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I work on my whole game and learn from the people around me, who I’ve benefited from tremendously, or the new players who come in to the club. Shaun Wright-Phillips
When I left City I was still young and there was a lot for me to learn in all parts of my game. To come back and have learned something at a place like Chelsea is down partly to the kind of players I played alongside. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I don’t do too much talking. I let my feet do that for me and that’s what I plan on still doing. Shaun Wright-Phillips
To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant. Shaun Wright-Phillips
For Man City, and the teams up the top or even the teams at the bottom, if you’re getting into your stride at that time, the winter break can almost break it and when you come back you could be doing the opposite things. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Some people handle situations differently – some people have a reaction, some people let it go over their head. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I just enjoy playing football no matter where I am chosen. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Growing up, Arsenal were always such a big team, they were dominant and would always give you a tough game. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I take every day as it comes, try to work hard and benefit from the training. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I’ve been to Dubai many times for holidays. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Sometimes people don’t realise just how hard it is to play with 10 men in the Premier League. Shaun Wright-Phillips
To an extent I agree that the FA hasn’t done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it’s hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I just thought as a kid, I’m just going to play for City forever. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Football is like a rollercoaster and if you keep dwelling on what’s happened in the past you’re never going to move. Shaun Wright-Phillips
In a Premier League race, it’s never over until it’s over. Shaun Wright-Phillips
I always try to think positive and move forward. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Being out of a team changes you as a person. You don’t realise it but, away from the game, you can be snappy with your family or friends if you’re not playing. It hurts not to be involved, but I guess you have to accept it. It’s part and parcel of being at a big club. Shaun Wright-Phillips
