Ali Krieger Quotes

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

Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn't take responsibility for organising my team's game, our attacks.

Anytime you get good service to the box, it's always great as an attacking player because it gives you more opportunities to score.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

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 play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

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.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

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

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.

In the midfield, I'm not the most comfortable playing with my back to the goal, and in the midfield you find that ball a lot.

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

It is up to me to adapt and to continue to surprise with my positioning, the timing of my runs, the trajectories, when I call for the ball.

I like attacking football, but that's not the only thing the game's about.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.

I like to get the ball down and play, but I can always get stuck in and hold my own.

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

I don't think it's a problem if you play well and don't score, when you are creating chances.

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

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

Always, even with the U17s in Spain, U19s, we play from the back, and we try to improve on that a lot. So I always enjoy having the ball at my feet.

If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.