Quotes from Phil Jones

As long as I am playing and enjoying playing, then that is all that matters.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn't the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

United need to be in the Champions League.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

I just love to defend!

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

When the chips are down, you see who the real fighters are. That is the beauty of Manchester United.

I knew the pressure would be huge. I knew Manchester United was a massive club and a big challenge for me. Hopefully I'm proving to people that I can rise to the challenge.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.