Per Mertesacker Quotes

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

It is important to have tough and strong players to win back the ball and give consistency to a team.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

As for my speed, I'm not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

Defensive moments are for each and every player.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

Center is a very tough position to play.

People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days.

It’s like volleyball. There are setters and spikers. The chief of staff is a setter, putting the ball in the air so the Senator can spike it.

Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision - a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander.

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

One-day cricket is about continuity, team ethic, understanding each other's role, where everybody fields and bats, when and at which end they want to bowl.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

Football is about balance.

I was a forward, a center my whole life.

That's the main thing on defense: focus, patience and staying as one unit.

When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win a lot of games.

'The Memphis Grizzlies' are always a great defensive team and defense is one of my strengths, so I think that's one thing that I can bring to this team.

I know what I can do and I know I can pass the ball. I know I can be a true point guard and I know I can score also.

Football is the total team game.

I always felt defense was a big part of my game.