Bojan Krkic Quotes

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do 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.

If you've got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

Watch me, and I only really like the ball into feet. I don't like running in behind so much.

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

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

If you want to play dominant football, you need to get the ball, think fast, and play quick combinations in small spaces.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

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

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

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.

You have to win on the ball.

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 love to play in the middle to be in contact with the ball all the time. I'm very happy to play in that position.

The midfield is the heartbeat of a football team, it's the centre of the action, so you can't just do one thing.

I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

I always play football in my team, and I know that if you play too much long ball, then it's difficult.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

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

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

You have to take care of the ball to win football games.

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