Christian Pulisic Quotes

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

I've never been one to go past 20 players on the wing. I'm always going to be the guy sneaking the ball through, to build and create something.

I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... how many ways can you affect a game?

In Indiana, I knew the offense in and out. I knew spacing; I knew personnel. I knew the offense, how coach wanted to play me. So when I just wanted to take over and control the game, I could.

I'm used to having the ball, man. So, not really having the ball in my hands... it's just me trying to find different ways to impact the game.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.

As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.

One of the things that makes the best teams in the world the best is the fact that, across midfield and up top, they are capable of hurting you.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

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

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

For me, possession is to keep the ball while you are waiting for the possibility to penetrate. Every pass is for a reason.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

When you control the ball you control the score

I've worked really hard on getting into the box more and being closer to the goal, which I think has brought real benefits to my game. It's definitely improved my goal scoring.

That's the intelligence of football: to see when to be compact, when to counter-attack, or, if you see that you're in the opposite half, you try and win the ball.

I don't know the stats but with Mesut in the team, you are always going to get at least three chances a game from him. He always provides an excellent pass or something, a good move or play that leads to a goal, or almost leads to a goal.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

You cannot have players come on and not make the impact because the game will slowly slip away from you. It is important you are ready.

Usually, when I'm in the 3-5-2, it's at the end of the game, in the 80th minute, where I'm really just attacking.

Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United's attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.