Teemu Pukki Quotes

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

Would I still be playing at the top level at the age of 37 years if I had any weaknesses?

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.

A football player at any level must set goals.

I'm very proud because, all my life, I worked very hard to be a football player.

You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

How can I be a great football player when you're not happy with yourself?

Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

Guys are bigger, stronger, just like in singles, serving bigger, returning better, and more athletic for sure. I think from my standpoint, just spending more time in the gym has enabled me to hang in there.

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

I am coming to the part of my career where I want to play more football.

Being stronger really helped my game.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.