Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Quotes

When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.

I have multiple friends on other teams who after a game, they'll tell me the game plan... part of the game plan is to stop you. It's a respect factor.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.

This is football, no more explanation, sometimes the best team does not win.

That's how it works, it's football. They need you or they don't.

You always need to have the highest respect for your opponents. If you see them fighting, you know you have to give something extra.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

Everybody has different ways of playing the game.

For us, it's about winning. How do you do that? You score more points than the other team.

I have to respect my opponent, always, doesn't matter who he is, but I'll get in there and win. That's a fact.

Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don't need to talk afterwards. That's just how it is.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.

We have to play our football.

We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.

The nicer the point, the more -- the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.

I always root for the defense.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.