Gerrit Cole Quotes

I like to get the ball on the ground, make good plays and move the ball around the pitch quickly at a good tempo.

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

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

I'm a player who likes to get on the ball and use it.

You have to win on the ball.

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

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.

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.

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

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

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

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.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

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

I see children now, and many things surprise me: they ask me about my boots and why I don't dye my hair. I wonder, 'Why don't you talk to me about how to cross the ball, control it, the position of the body when I strike the ball?'

Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.

I like playing just outside of my own penalty box, the player who receives the ball and organises the game.

In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it's like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You're still in your shape for every drill.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

In soccer, you have to be sly.