Diego Forlan Quotes

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

I think off the wing and just behind the striker are probably the two go-to positions, so to speak. I'm comfortable with playing both.

You can put the players on the pitch but they always move and systems change. I think, though, that Messi has to be a special case and that the other nine outfield players should support him. But one player on his own is not going to win you the World Cup.

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

Power is the main difference; it's more powerful in England. Referees are less strict than in France, teams like to play low and in counter-attack, and defenders in general are stronger than in France.

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

I don't believe many teams can do it just with one really, really good player. You have to be surrounded with a good cast.

You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.

I'm happy to play as a centre forward or a second striker, like in the national team with Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.

I would like to do what Cristiano has done: start wide and go into the middle as a No. 10 or 9.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

You've got to be fit to box. In football, if you need a breather, your team-mate can take over. There's no one in the ring to help out.

Being a midfielder, I need to get up and down, whether it's to get back and defend or get away from my opposite number. Extra effort in training makes all the difference.

I have never made a secret that I prefer to play centrally, it is where I feel I can get most goals from. At the same time, though, I also understand that you need to make sacrifices for the team.

I give assists; I create chances, because I can't forget my position. I play still on the wing, not No 9. I play for the team, and everyone can see that.

Regarding my position, I feel really comfortable in any position up front.

It's always good to have players who can help us in attack.

A keeper has to adjust his game to the team. If the team moves further up, he has to do the same. It's nothing I've invented.

It's called tactical periodisation because you push the physical and the psychological part together, but with organisation. So you run, but you run all the time with the ball. Always with the ball.

I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.

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

I hope to become a real striker.

In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.

Wherever I am on the field, I'm just trying to be an attacking presence and constantly be on their back four and try to make a difference in that way. So it doesn't matter where I play for my club.