Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Quotes

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

That's football, it's our job not just to name the starting XI but during the match as well.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

It is never good to concede a goal; it is part of our job not to concede, just as it is part of our job to score.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

Every single match, win, lose or draw, there's something that we can improve on, and it's about us addressing that straight after the match.

We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.

I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, 'I guess your style doesn't work.'

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

When I used to get the ball on the wing, I'd go fast and I'd go right. Veterans in this league, they watch film. They're definitely going to strategize. They know you like to go right. They know what your moves are.

I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that he was, and I knew what I had to do to prohibit him from being as effective on the basketball court as he had been throughout his career.

I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.