Miroslav Klose Quotes

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.

OK - we like to say how a striker creates space and influences matches in other ways, but let's not pretend: at the end of the season, the best striker everyone talks about is the top scorer.

My all-time hero for Sunderland was Kevin Phillips. He was the one I looked up to.

People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that's not the case at all. I'm nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much - Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.

I want to compliment Francesco Totti: scoring 206 goals is a great achievement. It does not matter that he has beat me, as he is a great player.

There is one thing that I would really enjoy, and that is, of course, to get 100 Premier League goals.

Strikers are expected to score, and I have two goals in eight games.

When I was young, I looked up to Andriy Shevchenko. He was so elegant, and on the pitch as well.

When the list is made of the all-time best players, Totti will certainly be in there. I really believe he will be remembered as one of the greats.

I want to be the best player in the history of Egyptian football.

Thierry Henry is one of my heroes; he is one of the players I watched when I was younger. When I was 17, I changed position to be a forward, and he, along with the Brazilian Ronaldo, were the two players I tried to mirror my performance on, so I would watch how they scored goals.

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

To follow in the footsteps of Dirk Kuyt would be sensational. He triumphed at Feyenoord and has had great success at Liverpool.

The death of Cyrille Regis, a giant in so many ways, was such a shock and deeply upsetting.

Paolo Di Canio was my all-time hero.

Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.

Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons.

Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games - 220 of them - than any other player in Steelers history.

Maradona is Maradona, that's indisputable, but he doesn't play anymore. He stopped playing a long time ago.

Coach Amodu without question is a colossus and football icon and has over the years made meaningful contribution to Nigerian football both at club and international levels.

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best