Harry Kane Quotes

Teams are already marking me individually: they are putting two players there on my side. Unfortunately, it's difficult, but I'm doing what I can. I'm facing them. I'm making assists. I'm trying to score my goals.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

I don't think it's a problem if you play well and don't score, when you are creating chances.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

If someone is going to spend a whole game marking you, then there may be games when I will have to sacrifice myself for the team and take them away and create space for a team-mate.

I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.

You can play just as offensively with one striker as with two.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.

Pastore has so many qualities. Every pass he makes puts our forwards into position and we create a lot of opportunities thanks to him.

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

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

Wherever I am on the field, I'm just trying to be an attacking presence and constantly be on their back four and try to make a difference in that way. So it doesn't matter where I play for my club.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United's attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.

No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.

I've pretty much adjusted to how teams play. Like when I draw two defenders, I want to make the best play possible.