All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.
I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.
When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.
I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.
What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.