Paul Scholes Quotes

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the first team. It's not easy.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

I'd rather walk off the park with two goals instead of one.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

A striker always wants to score as many as possible, but what's more important is the team's success.

Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.

Being at United, you always get quite disappointed if you don't get all three points, as you believe you can go into every single game and win it.

Playing in a team like Barca, you always feel pressure. The demand is to win everything, but this is good for you as a footballer: it makes you play better.

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.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

The Lazio striker always has great responsibilities.

I used to play as a No. 10, in Bilbao, in most of the games, but when I came to United, when you come to one of the biggest clubs in the world, you realise that if you want to be a No. 10, you have to score 10, 12 goals per season.

Striker is my favourite position, but once I get on the pitch, whether it's out on the wing or in the middle, I just want to enjoy my football and try and produce as good a performance as possible.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

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

I'm a forward, and I need to score goals, but I want to play at a higher level.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'

I'm in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out.

When you play for a team like Chelsea you will have to fight for your place.

In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well and do my best for the team. I know that I am representing a huge club, and I want to enjoy my football.