Quotes About Soccer

The best form of defense is to have the ball.

Liverpool are a team that is essentially very defensive; caution is at the heart of their game.

I've got a defensive responsibility as well as trying to get goals and assists. I'm trying to do that.

Sometimes I look at myself and ask, 'What is my best position?' But I think it's a defensive midfielder; that's the best one.

I can be the only defensive midfielder and try and break up play. Or I can play a little more forward.

Positional awareness comes with experience, so getting game time helps, but we also work a lot in training as a back-line and also on defensive shape.

It's clear that I'm a winger. I've now defined that as my position.

My season with Delhi Dynamos was very special.

I'm delighted to play with Neymar.

My form with Denmark hasn't been too bad. I got off to a very slow start with five goals in my first 50 games.

It's war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.

It's something you dream of. It's very special to play in the Merseyside derby and, especially, win.

Argentina against Brazil is the most important derby between national teams.

Tottenham's number one derby will always be Arsenal.

If I'm destined to play in the MLS, I will.

As a defender, how much ground I cover isn't up to me. I'm defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.

I've always liked the No.10 position. You can get on the ball a lot more and attempt to dictate the play a lot more.

My compatriot Diego Godin is one of the best defenders in the world, good enough to play for any team in any league.

Obviously Diego likes to play a bit further forward than me and then you have got Eden who is a player that likes to come inside and dribble, and his final pass is fantastic.

It's not easy trying to match the likes of Diego Forlan, Diego Costa and Radamel Falcao.

I always liked Santos. Then I started watching, it was the time, when I was very young, it was Robinho, Diego. Then I got the season that Neymar, Ganso and Elano played, I saw them all playing, that's when I fell in love with Santos.

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

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

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.