Ross Barkley Quotes

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

I'm an attacking player, and I can play wide.

I am a striker, so I have to score goals and give assists.

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

I've played on the wing in some games and found myself in the middle for five or 10 minutes when others drift wide. It's about creating chances, scoring goals and helping the team win.

Drogba is more of a hold-up player, a target man. I prefer to have ball to feet and run in behind.

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

As a No. 9, I have to be there to score goals, but that isn't the only thing. I also participate in the build-up and help my team-mates, but, above all, it's about scoring goals.

Watch me, and I only really like the ball into feet. I don't like running in behind so much.

I do what the forwards do and score goals.

I am a striker, and people expect strikers to score goals. But I don't see myself as a striker.

Penalties are easy if you score, but in open play, we create chances as well.

I'm the Inter striker, and in football, if the strikers aren't scoring, then they're not helping.

Piatek is a player that lives to score goals.

Generally, you're going into every game with excitement. You know you're going to play forward and not going to defend. You're going to try to create and score goals.

When you are a striker, you need to give a lot of effort for the team, to keep the opponent under pressure, to press them, to win the ball fast - that's what I try to do to help the team. After that, I try to make some goals.

I try to have an impact on every game, whether it's by making runs or using quick moves to try to get by defenders or making a nice pass to help my team.

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

When you are a striker like me, you always play for the teammates.

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.

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.

Obviously when you're a striker you need to score. The manager's not going to just play you if you're not scoring.

I'm a striker, and I can only score if the ball gets to me.

The main thing is I've tried to get better at everything - that includes the attacking side, being a threat, and taking people on.