Thomas Muller Quotes

Sometimes journalists say that goalkeepers can do a little more when they play against Messi, but I see it in every training: it does not matter where you place yourself; he's going to shoot to the other side.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I just want to be one of the best in the Premier League, scoring goals.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.

My form with Denmark hasn't been too bad. I got off to a very slow start with five goals in my first 50 games.

Zidane was an idol for me, I grew up watching him play. He always asks me to come out playing the ball and that I don't just sit deep.

Being able to put the ball in the back of the net is so important at the highest level and could be the difference between reaching the semi-finals and actually winning the World Cup.

MLS is a league that is growing. What can I say? The league is more physical: the players here can play 90 minutes or more. There is a little bit more quality in Spain, because it's more technical, but it's difficult to say.

It's important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision - if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.

I am very proud of being Brazilian, but I am also thankful for having the chance to play in Germany for four and a half years. I have completely changed the way I play football because Germany is a tougher, faster game which is more tactical with tighter marking.

I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

My view is that you show Messi one side or the other, and if he goes past you, he goes past you. But if he slips it through your legs, then you have to obstruct him and take the foul. Just don't ever let yourself be nutmegged.

I have no ambition to become Germany coach.

To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.

I admire the Premier League for the quality and style of football.

It's a strange world, the goalkeeping world.

The weakest point is between the legs for a goalkeeper.

When I played in goal at Stamford Bridge, I realised that's not my best position.

Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.

I hate false nines.

Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.

Mano Menezes is a fantastic coach, but Scolari is a fantastic coach, too, as well as being more experienced.

My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.