Miroslav Klose Quotes

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

When the team's not playing well offensively, it's always a problem for me because I'm not an individualistic player.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

Consistency, goals, and assists - that gets you confidence and puts the thought in the manager's head that he can't drop you.

Messi is an extraordinary player, but your squad is pivotal: at a World Cup, the 11 players on the pitch and everyone else in the group can all play an important role.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

I don't think it's a problem if you play well and don't score, when you are creating chances.

When we move the ball, we're one of the best teams in the league.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

It's true that it's good to have a good striker, but you have to win.

I'm not going on the pitch just to score goals, I am going on there first to win and to play well and then, if I have the chance to score as well, that's even better.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

The most important thing for me is to value the players and try to improve them individually in order to improve the team.

Sometimes I can help the team to score, to make the last pass or to get more chances and try to score. Maybe I can do this more often.

It is my job to score goals but that is only one part of the team.

It's good when you score goals because you are helping your team. For yourself as well, it's good, but the most important thing is the strength of the team.

My 100th goal is good for me personally but above all, the team is very important.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.