Edin Dzeko Quotes

Like every player, I want to start more matches rather than be used as a substitute.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

I have been playing football since I was 7.

Pedro has special qualities. He adds a lot, dribbling, scoring, keeping the pitch wide. He's always ready to compete.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

I am a football player. I like to win. And I am used to winning - quite a lot.

I want to play more minutes. I'm a player who doesn't want to stay on the bench or not in the squad.

I see myself as being a long-term England player - I am 100 percent focused here to try and get into that team.

It's hard to come off the bench and be ready all the time.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

A football player at any level must set goals.

I don't like sitting on the bench even when it was very rare at Hull to rest during cup games.

It's good to be competitive when everyone wants to be in the starting line-up.

Obviously, I don't want to be a sub, so I will just keep working hard in training. It's not that easy for me as a sub to come on with tempo.

We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

I'm happy to be back out on the court. Whatever role that I'll be in and whatever minutes that I get, I'm just grateful to be playing a game I love again.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I'm going to be here for a long time.

Let's say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That's not easy to do.