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

You look at players who are off form and there's a general disappointment, their confidence goes low and their whole demeanour can…

— Michael Carrick

My favourite game has to be winning the Champions League against Chelsea in 2008, because nothing can top that. My favourite goal…

— 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…

— Michael Carrick

Outside you get credit and praise and it makes you feel good, puts a spring in your step, but really the ceiling…

— 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.…

— Michael Carrick

When you get older, you want to be playing. I'm not one who would want to be sitting around as part of…

— Michael Carrick

In a way, I feel there's a Carrick style of playing.

— Michael Carrick

As a coach or manager, if it was something that had to be done I'd be comfortable doing it but I'd still…

— Michael Carrick

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

— Michael Carrick

But that's something I enjoyed. That's the game, the challenge, trying to think 'what am I am aiming to do here? Where…

— Michael Carrick

The 2006 World Cup was the summer I came to United so the England thing was kind of ongoing. Getting to the…

— Michael Carrick

It is something I would like to do, to be a manager, but that's not assuming I will be. It's something that…

— 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…

— Michael Carrick

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

— Michael Carrick

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but…

— Michael Carrick

But I still think it's part of the skill of being a coach or manager - to know who responds to what.…

— Michael Carrick

I think as an older player, there's a kind of natural responsibility or natural role to go around the lads and say…

— Michael Carrick

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

— Michael Carrick

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the…

— Michael Carrick

I do not take winning things for granted.

— 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…

— Michael Carrick

I loved passing, just feeling the ball against my foot. I think any individual, if you enjoy certain things, you tend to…

— Michael Carrick

I was never comfortable at United, really.

— Michael Carrick

I'm not really one who goes telling people things. I'm quite a reserved character and I keep a lot of things to…

— Michael Carrick