DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

I am in my best position in the middle of the 4-2-3-1.

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 play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

One thing I know is if I have my best player, I'm not going to let another team take him out of the game so I can throw to somebody else. I'm going to find a way to get my best player involved so they can't take him away.

It's always tough to play against teams that bunker or 'park the bus' inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

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

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

It's not just about getting the ball and figuring out every time how you can keep possession, because there are plenty of players who can do that. That's just not how I view my performances. It's about, What can I do to change the game and the attacking aspect of the game?

Even though I am not going to coach in the future, if I had to pass on a recommendation, it would be to base your game on having a strong defence.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

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

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

Generally, you're going into every game with excitement. You know you're going to play forward and not going to defend. You're going to try to create and score goals.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.