Ashley Young Quotes

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

I'm working on my final ball, my precision in front of goal, my one-on-one attacking ability, just new ways to beat defenders and help my team.

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.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

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

Ronaldo is different from Messi. He is very impressive down the wings.

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.

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.

Neymar will never fail to have technique and creativity.

Italy do not only defend; they can attack, too. They have attacking qualities, and they create chances.

I like to play up front.

If there's one thing that fans like to see, it's a player who can run at full speed towards the goal.

If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.

I'm not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there's an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.

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

I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.

I genuinely enjoy watching the full-back run up the pitch and going across to fill in.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who often plays on the left side and moves between the lines.

I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

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

That is my position, really: staying out wide and, most of the time, going into one v. one situations, which I am good at.

I'm one of those players who loves to dribble the ball, to run at people.