Paul Scholes Quotes

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

I've always been looking to get goals and assists, and to do that, I need to be higher up the pitch.

If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.

Attacking is the tough part in football; defending is relatively easy.

I come from a Napoli team who scored 104 goals. Do you think I'm going to be hyper-defensive with Real Madrid? A team that creates chances and is great in possession is not defensive.

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score.

I'm a player who likes to get on the ball and use it.

I loved being an attacker so much. I mean, it wasn't so much that I didn't think defending was fun or anything like that. It was just - growing up, that's kind of all I knew - was attack, attack, attack.

Chances to win games won't always come in the box, so that's one thing I've got to work on: positioning myself outside the box and, obviously, taking shots.

I think football must be attractive for fans, and that means scoring goals.

Against a team who are tight inside their area, you look to find combinations, the center with the wings or with shots from outside the box.

I feel like I am definitely an attacking player. I don't really know where specifically that is, whether it's centrally or out wide. I do feel like I just naturally have a mindset to go to goal or create goals or things like that.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

I think my role on a team is I love to put the puck in the back of the net. If that opportunity presents itself, and it happens for me, I get really excited.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

Anytime you get good service to the box, it's always great as an attacking player because it gives you more opportunities to score.

Generally, you're going into every game with excitement. You know you're going to play forward and not going to defend. You're going to try to create and score goals.

When I first went into the senior game I was more of an attaching player to begin with.

When you are a striker, you need to give a lot of effort for the team, to keep the opponent under pressure, to press them, to win the ball fast - that's what I try to do to help the team. After that, I try to make some goals.

It's fun scoring goals, but I also like to stop them.

Obviously, I am an attacking player, so when you are an attacking player, you need to create goals and get goals - and that's the main thing for me.

I will never play to just score one goal, then run behind the ball.

When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.

Scoring goals looks nicer and much more attractive than a last-ditch tackle for younger people.