Kyle Walker Quotes

I feel I am a total defender.

I've always been a centre-half, to be honest.

One thing was crystal clear to me: if you're centre-back, you first of all have to perform your task.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It's not like defending is hard. It's just, like, more of an attitude.

I wasn't a defender and I didn't think of myself as one.

Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

I personally like the way John Stones plays because I think he's a great defender.

I realize I have to continue to work on defense. I think a lot of people have to work on defense.

Liverpool are a team that is essentially very defensive; caution is at the heart of their game.

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

In football, there has always been this idea of having a left-footer and a right-footer in central defence.

Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.

I'm a defender first and foremost - blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn't really get recognised.

I'm a defensive-minded player.

As much as you want to improve or help the team, as a centre-back your job is to go under the radar and keep the ball out of the net. If you do that and let the strikers get all the adulation and the headlines, then you're probably doing your job.

I enjoy those physical battles and I've been on record saying Virgil van Dijk is the best defender in the world.

I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.

I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.

I wouldn't want to play as left forward if I normally play right-back.

I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.

Presnel Kimpembe has everything to become one of the best defenders in Europe.