Strikers Quotes

• 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.

  Patrick Vieira

  Football, Strong, Character

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

  Thierry Henry

  People, Goal, Scoring Goals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

  Romario

  Selfish

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• In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Team

  "Johan Cruyff: Former Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon Pays Tribute To A ‘Visionary’" by Ramon Calderon, www.newsweek.com. March 24, 2016.

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• You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Dog, League

  "Holloway Faces Rap Over Sepp Loony Jibe". www.mirror.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

  Pele

  Needs, Shapes

  "As I get older, I'd like to make Edson and Pele better friends" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Fighting, Goal

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• I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.

  Theo Walcott

  Believe, Boss, Can Do

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• Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen.

  Lionel Messi

  Hero, Player, Zidane

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• Raúl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional – one of the best to emerge from our country. His dedication, discipline and talent were superb. To talk about Raúl is to talk about a thoroughbred striker. He is, perhaps, one of the last true center forwards produced by El Salvador.

  Mauricio Cienfuegos

  Country, Dedication, Discipline

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• It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

  Ian Rush

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• We certainly have to improve on our performances especially up front. It's not that the strikers are not in form, as all four of them are; they just have to be more accurate.

  Roberto Mancini

  Four, Form, Accurate

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• When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Play, Two

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• Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

  Philip Sidney

  Divine, Senses

  Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Dutton (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.128, Taylor & Francis

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• You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing.

  Branislav Ivanovic

  Mean, Winning, Goal

  "Ivanovic refuses to look back on season to forget for Chelsea". www.mirror.co.uk. June 24, 2011.

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• The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

  Jermain Defoe

  Player, Roles, Enjoy

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• David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "David Beckham exits as gracefully as one of his arcing crosses" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

  Just Fontaine

  Goal, Three, Asking

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• [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.

  Michael Owen

  Team, Years, Goal

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

  Anthony Pettis

  Mma, Full Potential, Needs

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• I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game.
  I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

  Charlie Davies

  Soccer, Moving, Athlete

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• Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Europe, Spurs

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• Mesut Ozil made me the worlds best striker

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  World, Made

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• Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

  Peter Drury

  Football, Facts, Reputation

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• Join the club. 
  (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

  Stuart Pearce

  Men, Cities, Cost

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