Danny Welbeck Quotes

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Robert Lewandowski is a player who plays in front of the opposing goal, especially with his back to the opponent. He is always attacked, and this is one of the big strength of a striker who plays in this position.

I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.

People can say I've not scored enough goals, but you see the best strikers on the wing in a four-man midfield and see if they score goals. Nobody can really criticise my finishing because they don't really see me playing in a forward position too often.

It is very difficult to score goals in Italy.

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

I am a winger, but in future, I want to play more in the middle. When you are there, you have a lot more chances to score.

I study the other players in training, particularly the forwards, and I look at how they are scoring goals. What do they do when they finish a chance?

I just stand there up front and score the goals, because that's my job.

If the goals were a bit bigger, maybe I'd score a few more goals!

Obviously, when you've made a great assist... is a great feeling, but obviously, the best feeling is to score yourself.

As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.

I want to be a top scorer with my national team.

The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.

There's different types of strikers: Harry Kane is a wonderful finisher, Jamie Vardy has great pace and has come onto the scene exceptionally well and is playing consistently, and Wayne Rooney is a player I have admired during all of his career.

As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.

I've always been a real striker.

I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

I'm happy to play as a centre forward or a second striker, like in the national team with Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.

When you're a striker, you want to play all the games, and most chances come at the end because defenders are tired.

I am a striker, a goalscorer. That is my art.

I feel like I am definitely an attacking player. I don't really know where specifically that is, whether it's centrally or out wide. I do feel like I just naturally have a mindset to go to goal or create goals or things like that.

I think there are a lot of great strikers in Europe.

I am very proud of my goal record for England.

Wazza, when he plays behind the striker, he is very dangerous because he has more touches of the ball, and Wazza can create the goal as well and can score.