Lukas Podolski Quotes

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

I'll play where the gaffer decides: in the middle, on the right, or on the left.

I have played the World Cup qualifiers on the left wing, and that position suits me fine.

I'm enjoying my position on the left wing because I think I'm affecting the game more in terms of goals and assists. But I'm happy to play wherever I'm told.

If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.

Each game, we try to win the three points, but every game, I want to score and help the team.

Italy won the world title in 2006 and went out in the group phase in 2010 and 2014. They didn't make it beyond the first round. You don't win things because of your history, the shirt, or the names on the teamsheet.

If you score goals, you play. It's as simple as that.

I've played as a striker all my life. To play on the right or the left is always difficult.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

You have to know how to score.

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Put the fight on the court, and you will have a chance to win.

That's soccer. There are good games and others that aren't so much.

I like football very much. That's what I like. I play it quite well.