Harry Maguire Quotes

As a defender I try to keep clean sheets.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility.

I'm a defender first and foremost - blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn't really get recognised.

As a goalkeeper, you always expect every team to give you nightmares.

I defend my goal as if it were my home. I do my best to defend it and not to allow anyone to score goals or penetrate that. It's true.

I believe I can be a great player for Manchester United.

As a goalkeeper, you want to play.

Do I want to be the best defender in Europe? Of course. Any defender will tell you that - who wouldn't want to be the best?

At the end of the day, it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

I think I'm a great defender, to be honest.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

My heroes were always soccer players.

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Whoever likes football always likes to see the best player on the pitch.

That's soccer. There are good games and others that aren't so much.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

We believe defending is very much a team job, and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper.

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.

I do like to play and pass the ball. But first and foremost I see myself as a defender: blocking, tackling, heading.

We are Italy. It's only right that there is competition in attack, like there is in every other role.

Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.