Quotes About Striker

I enjoy being a presence in the box.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it's misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

As a No9, when youre up front on your own, your job is to keep the defence as far back as possible. Why? Because that gives more space to the No10.

I wasn't a natural defender. I was a striker as a kid. I have learned a lot but there is more to learn, of course.

When you're a striker, you want to play all the games, and most chances come at the end because defenders are tired.

Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.

Drogba is more of a hold-up player, a target man. I prefer to have ball to feet and run in behind.

I think there was a time where the target man went out of fashion and it was all about the small and quick striker.

Every striker wants to score more goals but as a target man I've always taken great delight in bringing other players into the game.

Every striker wants a teammate with his ability. Adama can cross from anywhere, so you have to be there at the right time to score.

I want to help my teammates, even if I'm a striker, because it's important to win back possession. But scoring is something incomparable.

Tevez is an extraordinary striker. Not only does he score goals, but he also helps his teammates and the midfield, too.

I like the atmosphere in the Premier League. The teams play attacking football, and for a striker, that is even more attractive.

Every striker has to have that edge. When they are not scoring, or when the team is losing, they explode.

I hate false nines.

When teams are dropping off, it's difficult, especially as a striker. You always have two centre-halves behind you and maybe a sitting midfielder as well. It's a bit more difficult creating chances.

You can say what you want about the Stephen Thompson fight, but you cannot disregard that me and Stephen went five rounds in a technical fight. Apparently, he's one of the best strikers in the UFC, Stephen Thompson.

I'm a very technical player, a striker who moves around the field a lot. I'm technical, I score lots of goals, and I like to score as many goals as possible. They are my best qualities. I also header the ball very well.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

I think the No. 9 will always be in football. You need the proper No. 9s in football; that's my opinion.

My Jiu-Jitsu is very MMA focused. I was not the best striker, and when I considered becoming a MMA fighter I just focused to improve my BJJ.

Before I went to Liverpool, I was a striker and then sometimes a No. 8 or No. 10, and my thing was shooting, finishing, and long-distance shots.

I never really got taught to be a striker in the first place and then I never got taught how to be a lone striker.