Oliver Burke Quotes

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

My favourite position is as midfielder, playing with Xabi and Khedira.

I have scored some goals, but that is not everything, is it? Football is more than that.

I try to have an impact on every game, whether it's by making runs or using quick moves to try to get by defenders or making a nice pass to help my team.

I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

Normally I provide a lot of assists and do a lot of dribbling - but it's always great when you score a goal.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

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

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

I'm the Inter striker, and in football, if the strikers aren't scoring, then they're not helping.

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

I'm an attacking midfielder.

You have to win on the ball.

I'd say I was an attacking midfielder, and if you are going to be one of the best, you have to score goals and create them.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

I am an attacking midfielder, and I have scored goals, but I want to score more and win more.