Santi Cazorla Quotes

I'm not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there's an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.

I saw that Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than 360 goals because he has a great right foot, but a left foot just as powerful.

Romario had the best first touch and the best pass to score a goal.

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

Everybody watches free-kicks, and when you watch them, you enjoy them. You have got to learn how to shoot and connect with the ball and how to move your leg. For everybody, it is different, but if you want to score lots of goals, then free kicks is an extra way to do that.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

Ronaldinho takes great free kicks and has scored a lot of nice goals from free play.

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my feet. It's about being used to certain situations, and with time, you will find, chances don't get snatched at.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.

As a finisher, there are few players as composed as Messi. When you can score as many different kinds of goal as he can, you have every reason to be confident.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

From close range the free-kick is taken with inside of the foot. I will take a run-up of two or three steps and take the kick with the inside of the foot and the ball will travel in a straight line towards the goal. If it is a long-range free-kick, then I will use the outside of my foot. The ball will turn in the air and head towards the goal.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

I can do a lot of stuff, score goals with my left, right, and head.

It's quite easy in football when you can bang it into the top corner.

I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

I used to watch Beckham and Andrea Pirlo. Players like that, they had a fantastic right foot on them; everyone knows that.

There aren't many who can take good free-kicks.