All you want to do is first and foremost a job for the team but if you can entertain the people in the stands, and make then enjoy their day, then it helps.
— John McGinn
It doesn't matter the level whether it is League Two or anywhere, you want to win games.
Alan Hutton and I are always fighting the corner for Scottish football. It's a really tough league down here with a lot of quality players trying to get into the Premier League.
I'm not your normal central midfielder.
If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.
If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted.
I think it's really hard to replace what Scott Brown brought to Scotland. He was one of a kind and there aren't too many players like Broony. But for me, the more you try and replicate him, the more difficult it becomes.
When you experience lows like I have it just makes you hungry to go and succeed even more, and make sure days like that don't happen as much as they have done.
Every young kid growing up playing football dreams of playing in those big famous stadiums.
Every time I've come away with Scotland I've learned and improved.
You always have to get your head down, work hard and things fall into place.
When I broke into the St Mirren team thing went pretty well for me and I managed to hit the ground running.
Scoring at the big stadiums in Glasgow is something I have dreamed about doing since I was a wee boy and now I have managed to do that.
There's always going to be that question going up a division. Can you do it? Are you only good against the players in a lower division?
I'm ambitious, which is why I chose Villa.
You have to beat the best if you want to win tournaments.
I think you're always fighting a losing battle when you're Scottish and I don't think that's right. I think the way that people look at Scottish football is wrong, but at the same time, we have to start proving it on the park and start showing it again.
You dream as a player of having fans chanting your name.
If you try too hard to fit in you become something you are not.
A lot of players and pundits can be talking the Scottish league down and it's not until players and coaches actually experience it they start respecting it.
If you get too high it comes back to bite you on the backside so I was always aware in spells before when I've done well in a season, eventually there was a wee dip.
You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.
I know I have been compared with Broony and he is a player I've looked up to massively. When I first went into the Scotland squad he took me under his wing.
You cannot look back and think what if.
We need to go into every game believing we are going to win.
We do our best to keep our feet on the ground and that's how it will remain.
I've got confidence in my ability.
You have to be able to deal with the pressures that playing for a big club like Hibs brings and it's not for everyone.
I feel loved at Hibs and I've loved my time here.
Hibs are such a brilliant club, amazing training ground, good coaches, and a great platform for Scottish players to get better.
Well I'm still a massive Celtic supporter. And I always will be. That will never leave you.
It's one of the reasons you play football, to make people happy.
To be honest, I had a brilliant group of players at Hibs and the support were very fair with me. They didn't make it difficult.
When a Scottish player goes down the road you're always going to get doubters. You always get people saying you're from a pub league.
It's an amazing feeling playing at a packed-out Villa Park.
I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.
I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.
You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim.
I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.
Everyone just needs to be his own man.
When you have a good relationship with a manager, and he leaves, it is disappointing.
That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.
Two-footed players always get a lot more recognition, so I always practised as a kid with my right foot.
There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.
There are always challenges that come your way and I'm probably better prepared to deal with them now I've been at Hibs.
Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.
If you are a player wanting to improve then Hibs will be a club you want to go to.
In Scotland you can enter a comfort zone. I felt I had already developed a reputation there and felt it was important to prove I can play elsewhere.
You want to play in big games.
I was so used to playing at St Mirren and then Hibs all the time, so it was really important that the next place I was going I was going to play.
