DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

As full-backs, we like to get high and wide. It's the style of football that I enjoy playing.

Maybe modern tactics mean that making the switch from defence to midfield is easier. Many years ago, full backs were more limited - you were just supposed to defend, and it didn't matter if you could get forward too.

The bigs are there on the help-side if the guy goes by me, and I'm able to switch to other offensive players.

I'm a defender first and foremost, and if I'm playing right centre-half, I am even more of a defender than the wing-backs.

Firstly, I am somebody who plays in a defensive role, and we need to start with that, but then I need to bring the ball forward and help the attack.

I didn't really like playing free safety. I didn't like being in the middle of the field.

I can play at full back on either side, but I prefer the central defensive position.

As a full back, your role is just as much in playing in midfield, getting forward and creating chances, as it is stopping them at the other end.

The position I am playing at right wing-back, I know I can score goals there.

I am always in the box, strong, good in the air, and, of course, I like getting stuck in. I play a physical game.

We, the goalkeepers, have a specific job.

I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.

As a midfielder, when you have sealed things up at the back, my job is to provide the ammunition for the strikers and forwards, to create opportunities for them.

I'm just getting a lot more opportunity than I got my second year in Phoenix. Here defensively with the Heat, I'm on a lot more tough defensive assignments. They trust me.

It's always good to have players who can help us in attack.

I like aggressive football and for players to put pressure on the ball.

Playing the nickel is something I'm very, very comfortable doing and I enjoy doing, but also, I know what me playing the safety position means to the entire defense.

As a wing back, when you get the ball wide, you usually don't have any help out wide. You have to be pretty good on your own out there.

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

Defense all starts with the ball and the rim-protector is the last resort, the last line of defense. I take pride in that.

That's the only way you can stop a guy like Cam Newton. Hit him. He's unstoppable, so whenever he does try to run like a running back, you got to punish him.

I consider myself more of a hybrid player than just a fullback.

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.

I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.