David Trezeguet Quotes

I've saved a few penalties; I'm good at them.

When you are in the goal, you have to concentrate totally on the game, but in a shoot-out when the striker is walking towards the penalty spot, you remember what you have been through and see it as a chance to make the difference.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

Anybody can miss a penalty.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

I used to cry when I let in a goal. I always thought I was to blame because I was the last man.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

Any one of Messi, Neymar, Xavi, or Suarez can take penalties; it doesn't matter.

Obviously if somebody scores 17 goals, you're not going to argue with him if he wants to take penalties.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

I don't score many with my head but, as it happened, that's how I netted my first-ever World Cup goal.

The number 9 has to be the one who scores the goals.

As a player, you never want a penalty shoot-out, because it is a lottery to some extent. You'd rather win in 90 minutes.

I'm proud to have played 14 matches at the World Cup with the number ten shirt and to have scored eight goals.

It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

When I played in goal at Stamford Bridge, I realised that's not my best position.

It's not easy to score three goals in 70 minutes.

It is a nice feeling to score two goals at Old Trafford.

You can score against any 'keeper, no goalkeeper is a superman.