LaMarcus Aldridge Quotes

The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

I've always been looking to get goals and assists, and to do that, I need to be higher up the pitch.

It's up to the manager where and how every player should play, but I think every player should be comfortable in that position.

If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

I am a striker or at least a playmaker behind the front man, certainly not a wide man. But with Rome and Milan, I was only playing on the wings.

It's important for a striker to play in a position which is natural for him.

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

No matter what the trends are in the NBA - teams going big, going small, getting more efficient with analytics - the ability for a player to create his own shot, then convert tough shots, will always be a weapon, particularly when you get to the playoffs.

I consider myself more of a hybrid player than just a fullback.

Arsenal wanted me to be a controller in the midfield, an Emmanuel Petit-type.

Arsenal are all about nice, intricate passing movements around the box, so if I shoot too much from outside the box without scoring, the boss will have a go at me!

Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.

Obviously, I try to play the game in the way that I can help the team. I know I play a little bit more defensively now, more in the role as a team player, but I think I'm doing really well in that.

Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket.

I'm the football manager. I make all the football decisions that evolve around the game that's being played on a Saturday.

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

I don't want to become a player who spends half his time running round after the breakdown, because that won't get the best out of me.

Obviously, things evolve; teams see you play a little bit and start try to do things, and the one thing that'll happen is if one team has success in something, you can bet the next three teams are doing some similar things, too.

I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.

When you have a dominant big man, that changes the aspects of the game.

Muller is part No. 7 and part No. 9, a second striker. But in Ancelotti's system, there is no room for that type of player.

It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.

Every play, I'm trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don't want to be on the field anymore.

I like to chip in with goals because I'm an attacking player, and that's what an attacking player should do.