Scott McTominay: "Why I'm desperate to win at all costs for Manchester United" (E236)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In his first ever podcast appearance, Manchester United and Scotland midfielder, Scott McTominay, reveals his journey through the ranks of the Academy to the first team. Scott shares the challenges, successes and learnings that have taken him to where he is today.
Having made his senior debut for the club in May 2017, Scott shares with Jake and Damian the attributes he has developed over the years, including consistency, dedication and discipline. Taking them through his teenage years, Scott reflects on how the unwavering support of his parents helped him navigate the balance of pursuing football while studying and being away from family, as well as the challenges to his physical development which almost halted his football career.
Scott shares some of the best advice he has ever received, including a humbling phone call from Jose Mourinho and important guidance from current Man United manager, Erik Ten Hag. He also illustrates how influential his relationship with coach Warren Joyce has been in reshaping his career trajectory as well as the learnings he took from United legends Wayne Rooney, and Michael Carrick.
Scott sheds light on the unique culture at Manchester United, how his hard work has enabled him to establish himself as a regular in the first team, and how his grit means he will fight to stay there.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're listening to high performance the show that unlocks the minds of the most |
| 0:05.1 | fascinating people on the planet. I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside our expert in high-performing |
| 0:10.8 | cultures, Damian Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes and |
| 0:15.0 | struggles of our guests, allowing us all to explore, be challenged, and to grow. |
| 0:20.6 | Here's what's coming up today. |
| 0:23.0 | Everyone has it. It's just how you control that and how you manage that in terms of your craft. |
| 0:27.0 | Doesn't matter what you do, can I keep performing at the level that I'm going? |
| 0:31.0 | And that is ultimately what fuels me the self-doubt |
| 0:33.7 | What defines you as a football player that you have to do every single game? My |
| 0:38.1 | mentality how I approached a game like if I was ever going into a game and I was a little bit soft and that's not me and I want to be one of the ones who has the biggest output in the game. I want to be able to score goals. |
| 0:51.0 | Whenever you're not playing like you can't take it too personally |
| 0:54.1 | everyone wants to play every single game so whenever you are given the opportunity |
| 0:58.3 | you need to take it that's my nature I want to win and I'm desperate to win at all costs. |
| 1:04.0 | So welcome to high performance Manchester United midfielder Scott McTomey. |
| 1:10.0 | So Scott joins us at a brave time actually, a time when his club are really struggling for results and performances on the pitch but actually I believe this is the perfect time because all too often when things are tough players clubs, they don't want to do this kind of stuff, |
| 1:25.3 | they don't want to have these kinds of conversations. |
| 1:27.5 | What is it actually like being in the eye of the footballing storm? |
| 1:31.3 | How does Scott deal with criticism? What does it really feel like |
| 1:35.1 | when you're having to leave all of that at the door and go out and perform on a |
| 1:40.2 | football field? What is he doing as someone who deeply loves Manchester United and is a proper professional |
| 1:46.1 | to try and drag that club back to where they belong? I tell you now this guy was deeply |
| 1:51.5 | impressive when he came into the room for this conversation with us. |
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