Jermain Defoe 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.

Striker is my favourite position, but once I get on the pitch, whether it's out on the wing or in the middle, I just want to enjoy my football and try and produce as good a performance as possible.

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

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

I am a striker, so I have to score goals and give assists.

We like to score a lot of goals.

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

I've always been known more for giving assists than scoring - but of course, I enjoy scoring goals, too.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

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

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

I like to play. It doesn't matter if it's just me up front on my own or alongside another striker. I always want to play in the first XI.

I've got a defensive responsibility as well as trying to get goals and assists. I'm trying to do that.

If you've got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

I'm a striker. That's what I enjoy doing. And any chance to display that, I'm happy.

I'm an attacking full-back.

I am a striker, and people expect strikers to score goals. But I don't see myself as a striker.

I want to play football, and I want to help the team. It doesn't matter if I play midfield, if I play in defence, if I play as a striker.

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'm a striker and obviously I live to score.

Mbappe, he always wants to score. He also dribbles well.

I play with some talented players like Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic and Nathaniel Chalobah. They have different styles and I can learn from everyone.

It's important for a striker to play in a position which is natural for him.

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.