Scoring Goals Quotes

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

[Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.

The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.

Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

You never get fed up scoring goals.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.

Cristiano Ronaldo loves scoring goals. Only HE can achieve what he's achieving.

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football.  (on returning to the premiership)

He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.