Quotes About Performance

When I was 18, I never expected to be what I was - you hope to make your debut, to play for the national team, and I want to achieve something similar off the pitch to what I did on the pitch.

It doesn't matter, if you're on the pitch, how old you are. You have to keep going - you have to perform - and if you're 18 or 36, you have to play your games.

Stephen Ireland is one of the most talented players I have seen, and Nigel de Jong is doing really well. He fights for his team all over the pitch, and he has a lot of character.

If I'm on the pitch, and I score, and I'm not going to celebrate, I would rather tell the manager I'm not going to play because what is the point of scoring goals and not celebrating?

I try to do my best both on and off the pitch, giving a good image in my behaviour.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

Brazil needs a player like Neymar at his best on the pitch because Neymar on the pitch gives more confidence to the other players.

I'm not looking into the future. I take every game as it comes, and as long as I am on the pitch and playing football, that is what keeps me happy.

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

Scoring comes naturally because every time I come off the pitch and I haven't got a goal, then I am not happy with my performance.

Marcus Rashford has done really well. He had a great first season, and then people had really high expectations, but he showed his quality on the pitch in the second season.

Everton have put their faith in me, and I intend to honour this shirt and demonstrate on the pitch why I came here.

The pitch is the most important material for a football player.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

I like to be on the pitch, I like to perform and impact the game.

Scoring goals is nothing new for me. Every time I go out onto that pitch, I just go out there to score goals.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

In Korea, if a player doesn't play well, you would never criticise him, but in European countries fans criticise their own teams; sometimes they boo them off the pitch.

The more minutes you get on the pitch, the more you can prove yourself.

Every time I step on the pitch, I think about winning and putting on a performance that ensures my team comes out on top.

If I have got an injury, I have got an injury. Whenever I want to play for Nigeria, I must be 100 percent, I want to give everything. But if I have got an injury, I don't want to force myself, because I am going to look stupid on the pitch.

If teams play Bayern, they bring another attitude to the pitch than if they play teams who are not Bayern.

I work hard every week and when I come off the pitch after each game I like to think I've done everything possible to help my team.