Keylor Navas Quotes

Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.

I prefer to play inside linebacker.

I think the first time I had to play at left-back was at Manchester United in the Europa League.

I am enjoying playing as a full back, and I would like to continue in this position.

One thing was crystal clear to me: if you're centre-back, you first of all have to perform your task.

I like playing deeper, but I'm not Casemiro.

I'm not a striker, I'm not a goalscorer - I'm a midfielder.

I didn't really like playing free safety. I didn't like being in the middle of the field.

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

I like to play against strikers and think that, from my size alone, I'm more of a central defender.

I can play at full back on either side, but I prefer the central defensive position.

I can play at left-back and I can help the team at times. But everyone knows I am not a left-back.

I would love to see myself as versatile - I think that's important as a player - but I think, realistically, I feel like kind of how the team sees me is probably more set in stone as a center-back defender, which is totally fine.

Defensive midfielder is my position and I have to be focused on that role.

It's good that I can play in two positions, as a centre-back or as a holding midfielder, as I just want to get minutes and get games.

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.

Once I reached about 14 or 15, I started to steady myself and get into a midfield role and carried that on until I was 17. Then I dropped into right-back, and I have played there ever since.

I wasn't going to play on defense in college.

Growing up, every team that I've played on, I was a pretty important piece to the team.

I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.

The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.

It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

I've played as a striker all my life. To play on the right or the left is always difficult.

I prefer defensive midfielder because I know my job when I play there. More things are in front of you.