John McGinn Quotes

John McGinn

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 18, 1994

When you have a good relationship with a manager, and he leaves, it is disappointing.

John McGinn

You cannot look back and think what if.

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I think it's really hard to replace what Scott Brown brought to Scotland. He was one of a kind and there aren't too many players like Broony. But for me, the more you try and replicate him, the more difficult it becomes.

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Everyone just needs to be his own man.

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I know I have been compared with Broony and he is a player I've looked up to massively. When I first went into the Scotland squad he took me under his wing.

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If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted.

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I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.

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You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

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If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.

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You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim.

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If you get too high it comes back to bite you on the backside so I was always aware in spells before when I've done well in a season, eventually there was a wee dip.

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I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.

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A lot of players and pundits can be talking the Scottish league down and it's not until players and coaches actually experience it they start respecting it.

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I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.

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If you try too hard to fit in you become something you are not.

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It doesn't matter the level whether it is League Two or anywhere, you want to win games.

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It's an amazing feeling playing at a packed-out Villa Park.

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You dream as a player of having fans chanting your name.

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All you want to do is first and foremost a job for the team but if you can entertain the people in the stands, and make then enjoy their day, then it helps.

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