I'm not saying I would have been an unbelievable player but I think I'd have been a top player.

The dock would inject my knee before the game.

It just got to the point where enough was enough incredible amount of pain.

Going out to see Sir Alex on a private plane,

I remember the last thing you said to me,

and it still gives me shivers now.

He looked into my eyes and he says Phil are you a winner's on.

That was the voice of footballer Phil Jones who joins us on this episode of high

performance the show that explores the stories and ideas as some of the most

extraordinary people in the world. I'm Jay comfrey and like a lot of you I'm

just someone who's fascinated by becoming a better version of me. And I'm Damien Hughes, I'm an expert in high performance.

I've worked with teams like the England football team, Scotland Rugby

and loads of other professional sports seems right across the world,

as well as with leading business people to help them understand

how to get the very best out of themselves and others.

In this podcast, we discuss both how people achieve great things and the why that drives them.

So our guest today played over 200 times for Manchester United, he represented his country and you're about to hear the truth from him. The truth from a man

that so many people have an opinion about and I'll be really honest this is a

painful and difficult conversation at times but it's also a really important one, as Phil reveals the true

toll of the injuries that define the latter part of his career.

We hear the truth about what criticism does to someone and how Phil really felt let down and embarrassed by one particular manager at Manchester United.

But crucially, he'll also describe how he's now in a place where he feels real pride and contentment when he looks back on his career.

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