Quotes About Strikers

Diego Costa is a good example. He's doing very well, and he's arguably one of the best strikers in the world, so I have to see what he does and add it to my game.

No. I want you to invite him to dinner. Of course I want you to knock him out! Use your strikers.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

Look at the top strikers like Harry Kane and Sergio Aguero. They are ruthless, and every time they get a shot, people think they are going to score.

I think you say that strikers win you games, but defenders win titles and I think that's really important.

The euphoria lasted only days. Chicago's elites had been beefing up public and private security forces for years. On May 3, police shot strikers at the gates to the McCormick harvester factory.

I think really, if I were to defend the K-1 strikers, that it was a pressure of not enough time to re-prepare for a fight and not enough time to repair for a fight as a result of the last show.

Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.

Strikers in England get less time than in Holland, and it took me a while to get used to that.

I'm not worried that Germany will always have strikers that are of international calibre.

I remember when I was at Chelsea, and Ancellotti used to say, 'Watch a DVD of Inzaghi' - movement in terms of runs in behind and what makes strikers score goals.

The best strikers make you sit up and take notice because every time they get the ball, you think that something amazing could happen. Of course they'll score goals, but they'll have something in their game which makes you think, 'Wow, he can win this game by doing something magical.'

The Italian one is the toughest league of all for the attackers.

The standard across Europe is set by Lyon. We're so far ahead of so many teams. In training every day it's 11 internationals v 11 internationals, so I'm having to defend against the world's best strikers every day.

The fact is, as all we strikers know, we tend to get judged just on the number of goals.

I've had some nice messages after games from players who I haven't spoken to before. I won't name people and drop them in it, but I've had messages from opposition strikers and defenders saying that they respect and love the way I play, telling me to keep doing it and not to change the way I am.

The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary—and that was the press.

I learnt at the Euros that that is the level I want to be at. That is where I want to be. The standard of the strikers there was top class. That is where I want to be for a long period of my career.

With all strikers, it's just about needing a bit of confidence.

I was part of the Bollywood film 'Strikers,' which I would call a niche film.

the ball goes to the other central defender and this one makes a vertical pass – not to the midfielders, who have their back turned to the ball, but to those moving between lines, Andrés Iniesta or Lionel Messi, or even directly to the striker. Then they play the second ball with short lay-offs, either to the wingers who have cut inside or the midfielders, who now have the game in front of them.

The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they're the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.

Scoring a goal feels a bit like a liberating act. It is a mix of sensations that only strikers can feel in their own guts. We work for that, to score. It is like a commitment, an obligation we take with ourselves.

I think growing up in England strikers are hungry to just get goals. We have a mean streak in us. We like to get goals.