You can have one good game, but the next one could be a bad one.
FA Cup or league - we look to win every game.
Getting stronger and fitter by playing games is only going to help me.
You are all mates off the pitch, but on it, you are all competing for places. I think that only makes a healthier squad - more players fighting for positions can only mean everyone has got to step their game up.
All players go through injuries in their career, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.
Obviously, everyone goes in the gym and does the biceps bells and the bench press, but when you're injured, you work on your core, your pelvic floor, your groins, on glutes, and muscles you wouldn't really know about. It does make you a stronger player all round in terms of injury prevention.
When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.
Any chance I get, I'll try and take with two hands.
I'm always learning from the boys around me.
I have to improve to get to where I want to get and to be as good as I hope to be, so I keep working on it.
I always hear commentators talking about squads that have been around and that have won things; they always mention the experience of winning and knowing what it takes to win. They have only got that through winning trophies and winning competitions.
When there's a lot of talk about a team that should or could be winning things, and it's not happening, it can become a little bit frustrating.
I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.
When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.
Every time I come and try to work hard in training, and when I get opportunities, try to work hard and do the things the boss asks us to do.
Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.
I just say I'd like to be an attacking midfielder.
I just want to be able to be an attacking influence and have that effect further up the pitch; whether that's from an attacking midfield position or one of the wider positions coming in, I'm not too fussed.
Wherever I played, I had an opportunity to show my attributes.
