Michael Carrick Quotes

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Michael Carrick

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 28, 1981

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

Michael Carrick

The Champions League and the Premier League are now both huge, but the tradition and history of the FA Cup is still very special.

Michael Carrick

Outside you get credit and praise and it makes you feel good, puts a spring in your step, but really the ceiling was the manager. If I was playing at Old Trafford and felt as though I was contributing and winning things, that was enough for me.

Michael Carrick

Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and upbringing there.

Michael Carrick

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

Michael Carrick

I'm doing things in Manchester with the Trafford Sports Park in partnership with the Manchester United foundation and I'm also doing things in Newcastle as well. It's something I'm passionate about.

Michael Carrick

I do not take winning things for granted.

Michael Carrick

If you like being patted on the back for the good times you have to be prepared to take the bad times.

Michael Carrick

I was relegated with West Ham and you never forget that. Going down, playing in the Championship, I constantly remind myself of that. I still remember the feeling, without doubt, I wouldn't allow myself to forget it.

Michael Carrick

I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn't in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.

Michael Carrick

The 2006 World Cup was the summer I came to United so the England thing was kind of ongoing. Getting to the World Cup was massive but it wasn't until I got to United that I had that feeling that winning was a possibility.

Michael Carrick

Certainly every manager I've played under you take things from them. That's just part of gaining all that knowledge over the years. Some good, some not so good, but it's all part of the process.

Michael Carrick

You set out to be a footballer, when you're young, and you think I'd love to do that. There's plenty of things along the way that could change that, and it's the same thing now with being a manager, it's time will tell how it goes.

Michael Carrick

A decent player doesn't automatically make a decent manager, I know that. But I will do everything I possibly can.

Michael Carrick

The expectation at United is to win every game and you have to be at your very best in training, never mind in the games.

Michael Carrick

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

Michael Carrick

When I left West Ham in 2004 there was a chance of them signing me instead of Spurs, but it isn't something I think about too often. I've been spoilt during my career.

Michael Carrick

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

Michael Carrick

My favourite game has to be winning the Champions League against Chelsea in 2008, because nothing can top that. My favourite goal was at Wigan in 2009, which came late in the game and pretty much clinched the title for us that year.

Michael Carrick

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut - but it didn't quite happen after that!

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