Mauro Icardi Quotes

I have always been scoring goals, and now the quality of goals I am scoring is better.

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

I have the ability to score goals.

Romario had the best first touch and the best pass to score a goal.

There is a no more complete striker than Ronaldo. Left foot, right foot, header - he is in perfect control of everything he does.

I am a striker, a goalscorer. That is my art.

It's difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He's very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.

I'm a striker; my job is to score goals.

As a finisher, there are few players as composed as Messi. When you can score as many different kinds of goal as he can, you have every reason to be confident.

Everybody watches free-kicks, and when you watch them, you enjoy them. You have got to learn how to shoot and connect with the ball and how to move your leg. For everybody, it is different, but if you want to score lots of goals, then free kicks is an extra way to do that.

Heading is a skill, and it would be a shame to lose that from the game. There is nothing more dramatic than when you see someone score a diving header, for instance.

Mbappe, he always wants to score. He also dribbles well.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

I am a striker, so I have to score goals and give assists.

A better goals-to-game ratio is the aim for me now. If you score goals, you will get people talking about you.

For me, if the ball's in the net, it doesn't matter if it's an overhead kick or just a tap-in.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

I like to play up front.

I'm an attacking midfielder.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

The position as a striker is the hardest one in the Premier League. If you look at some top, top strikers, even they struggle to score goals here.

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

I don't need to speak with my colleagues in the national side to know what kind of player Messi is. He's one of the best players in the history of football and very difficult to stop.