25 Quotes by John Stones

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

You want to go out every week and win - that's our job - and when you don't do that for a few games on the trot it starts to eat away at you, no matter who you are.

You've got to be harsh on yourself because it is the only way you are going to get better by studying those situations where you may have fallen short.

I've enjoyed the challenges of playing in the biggest games.

It's not me being rude or disrespectful but as I've got older I've realised I can question people or ask why. Maybe in the past I've been scared to ask them or scared of the reaction of what I would get back.

I know and the manager knows my best position is centre-half but if I can learn two other positions if needed then it's great for me as a player and my development.

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

Everyone finds their little ways of getting past bad moments and everyone has them, it's football. We get the good moments and we get stick. You can start overthinking, it's human, everyone does it.

There isn't really anyone I modelled myself on.