Quotes About Winger

It's true, when I was at Barcelona I played as a winger.

I am a winger, but in future, I want to play more in the middle. When you are there, you have a lot more chances to score.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who often plays on the left side and moves between the lines.

There were loads of managers who said, 'You have to concentrate on being a winger because you have more potential there.' But I was like, 'You can say what you want, but I'm a midfielder, and I know what's the best for me.'

My preference would be to play as a right winger, but I can also play as a striker.

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.

As a winger, you want to get at defenders and make it hard for them. Instead of them going forwards, they have to defend against you.

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

I like to play attacking, like a winger, or an attacking midfielder, so it depends on the coach, where he's looking at me for which position.

Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that.

I've played as a winger all of my professional life and I'm looking forward to doing that now in front of the Everton fans.

If I can force my winger backwards, it just comes down to who's fitter, and I like to think I'm pretty fit.

Being a winger or a wide mid, I have to run continuously for 90 minutes, which not only takes endurance but also strength in my legs to be able to be explosive for 90 minutes. I think weight training has really allowed me to sustain for those 90 minutes.

There are few players who play on their natural foot as a winger.

In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I could never cut inside and shoot. It was only when I joined Real Madrid and started playing in a more central position, and then on the right wing, that I suddenly realised I had a really dangerous weapon.

I don't play right wing now but I am up and down the right wing a lot at club football. I know it would be a lot different but when I was younger I played there so I don't think I'd be uncomfortable playing there.

I am trying to improve the defensive side of my game and become an all-round wide-player, but my USP is that I am an attacking winger that takes players on, commits opponents, and excites fans. I think we are an increasingly rare breed.

It all seemed to happen at once. Jason threw his sweater toward me. It flew into my face like a blanket in the wind. I pulled it away from my eyes to see the Hurricane right winger move in on the puck and sweep past Jason.

I have a natural connection with Romelu. We stay most days after training and meet up to practice my crosses and him getting on the end of them. He is a top player, and he takes up the best positions for an old-fashioned winger like myself.

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

In the English 4-4-2 you have to change your mentality from a winger to a left midfielder, having to help your full-back.

Whether a player rotates more or less depends on his form and his position. It's not the same for a center back as it is for a winger. Every player is different.

Fans booing when a ball was passed backwards used to spin me out. Theyd rather cheer a right winger, running 100mph down the flank and then crossing into the stand. Thats no good.

At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.