Wayne Rooney Quotes

You’re trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a ‘memory before the game. I don’t know if you’d call it visualising or dreaming, but I’ve always done it, my whole life.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

When they talk to me, people say, ‘I didn’t expect you to be how you are.’

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street – which is pathetic really.