Alexandre Lacazette Quotes

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

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

I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

In the Premier League, you can't play against anyone if you don't play at a high pace.

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.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

There are many talented midfielders but not the kind of playmaker I am.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

At Chelsea, there's more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

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

The game was different then, when I used to play. The ball ran more than the players and to some extent there was greater technical skill.

When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you're always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

I compliment Kramer perfectly. We both put in a lot of legwork, win many balls, and we're comfortable with the ball at our feet. We also talk a lot both off and on the pitch.

I like to dribble and give the decisive pass to my teammates.

The midfield is the heartbeat of a football team, it's the centre of the action, so you can't just do one thing.