Quotes About Football

It's different to play midfielder and striker or No. 10, but I enjoy all the positions I can play.

I'm very proud of my dad. To me, there are comparisons, but there aren't comparisons. We kind of play two different positions. He's a Hall of Famer, I'm not a Hall of Famer.

Normally, I am a player who can play in different positions, but never in defence.

For me, there are no 'between players' in football. For me, there are clear positions and clear characteristics for all players.

I've always looked at what Lampard does, and to me is a huge phenomenon - the way he hits the ball, what positions he takes up - he really is incredible.

I know it could be a bit more difficult in England because you are not playing all the time and you play in different positions. But I do expect to score many goals for Chelsea and I hope to keep the average of between 10 to 20 goals a season, that would be good.

If you have got pace and awareness of where you want the ball and where you want to go yourself, you are getting in positions behind defenders and that is what defenders want the least.

I don't think people saw me as a coach. But as a player I concentrated a lot on playing the game and I was always interested in the thinking side of football and speaking to managers about why they would pick a certain formation or play people in certain positions.

As a young centre-forward, if I'm to look along the line of top centre-forwards, I would look at Robert Lewandowski and study his game and see what positions he gets in, because I feel he's got similar attributes to what I have.

I am very happy to be at Fiorentina and I hope to help the team to fight for the first positions.

I've played five positions in a match, not three!

The only way I can have a positive impact on this football team is for me to dedicate myself to doing my job.

If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it's much better.

Nothing compares to Rome. Nothing. People there are crazy about football - in a positive way.

People always want to talk about the club, whether it is positively or negatively, and if you play for Liverpool you have got to get used to that as part of the job.

With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it's going to be difficult.

There's no use to have 70 percent possession if the opponent is creating more chances than you are.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

It's modern football - having the ball, controlling the game, and being well positioned when you lose possession.

You win football games by first getting possession and then running 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail Mary passes. Common sense, elbow grease, and keeping a positive attitude.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

I love this style: get the ball back quickly, then play possession with so many combinations. When you watch that, you get the feeling you want to go out on the pitch and play football with your friends and just enjoy yourself. City and Barcelona are great examples.