Quotes About Scoring

It's one of those things when you're down in the red area, a lot of teams double me. Two-man, guys sit underneath me, so I can't really slant. They have a safety kind of cheated out, as far as the fade balls and things like that. But when we get our opportunities, we've got to make people pay.

Criticism of me has been unfair. Only goals count - and I have plenty of those.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

It is a great boost for confidence in a squad when there is not just one or two players scoring goals, but the whole team is contributing.

Personally, scoring goals creates confidence and I gain the mental stability and get poised from it.

If I score a goal in training, it feels great. But in a stadium, especially Anfield, or even when you score away and the fans are silent, it's just amazing. You are just in the moment. There are times when I've scored, and I can't even remember what happened. It's so good.

Whenever I score for Manchester City, my mother calls me. As soon as the ball hits the back of the net, the phone rings. It doesn't matter if she's back home in Brazil or if she's in the stadium watching me. She calls me every time. So I run to the corner flag, and I put my hand to my ear, and I say, 'Alo Mae!'

When scoring music, the idea is to ensure that your song makes it to the playlist on your audiences' music player and stands out from the multitude of songs released every day.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

I really enjoy putting the ball in the back of the net. I enjoy being the person that's creating things for the team.

It doesn't matter how you score, when the ball touches the net it's a goal.

I live to knock the ball into the back of the net.

I am just happy to hit the back of the net.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.

It's hard as a striker. It's cut and dried. Your job is to put the ball in the back of the net.

Scoring goals is what I love, and it gives me that confidence every time I hit the net.

Robert Lewandowski has had some criticism, but he knows how to find the net.

They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.

A lot of my goals have been one-touch finishes so it's about getting in the right areas and being the man to put them in the back of the net.

If you get the cross in there's always a chance I can head it into the back of the net.