Ralph Hasenhuttl Quotes

I'm a strong striker, two-footed, and I can score goals.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

You need guys who can run and throw.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

The best player I ever played with is probably Cesc Fabregas. I only got to play with him for a year before he went back to Barcelona, but I learned so much from him - the way he knew what he was going to do with the ball before he got it and his passing - and he scored goals.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn't the fastest guy.

I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

I'd like to think I'm an attacking creative midfielder who can assist with goals.

I hope to become a real striker.

Sterling is a player that did very well at Liverpool. He is very fast, too, and he is able to create good chances and is always ready to attack and help the team with his speed.

The thing about being a striker is you need to be lightning-fast.

I am not as dangerous as I used to be. I am not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is something I have lost and something I have to get back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.

You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.