Scoring Goals Quotes & Sayings

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. — Gael Garcia Bernal

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

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. — Lionel Messi

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. — Jose Mourinho

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster. — Ted Lindsay

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that. — Teddy Sheringham

If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me. — Luis Suarez

[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

When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches. — Douglas Adams

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. — Cristiano Ronaldo

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. — Tiffeny Milbrett

Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great. — Patrick Kane

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

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. — Lilian Thuram

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality. — John Madden

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game. — Diego Simeone

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

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. — Jermain Defoe

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

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. — David Beckham

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

Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year ... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment — Alex Morgan

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again. — Michael Owen

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

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. — Alexander Ovechkin

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten. — Adele Parks

It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals. — Cristiano Ronaldo

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

I've always been a player that likes to get round the back and get crosses in for other people. When I first burst on to the scene some people only saw the goals I was scoring. More recently they've taken notice of the goals I've set up. It is nice to be recognized for that. — Michael Owen

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

You never get fed up scoring goals — Alan Shearer

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

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. — Wayne Rooney

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed. — Roger Ebert

Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game. — Frank Lampard

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. — George Weah

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 — Michel Patini

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

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off. — David Peace

You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high. — Billy Beane

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) — Michael Owen

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts. — Manuel Neuer

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. — Pele

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

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid. — Zinedine Zidane

He who takes his eyes off the goal has a good chance of not scoring!" - Allan Rufus -
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Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates — Bernd Schuster