Karen Bardsley Quotes

It's fun scoring goals, but I also like to stop them.

Basketball will always be my first love.

Football is the total team game.

I'm in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out.

Football is a simple game. It is not difficult to play football: just pass the ball around.

I always felt defense was a big part of my game.

I was stealing the ball from all the guys. Every time they dribbled the ball, I used to take it, and I'd go down the court, and I'd either lay it up myself, or I'd pass it to one of my teammates. I was getting a lot of excitement from that; I felt good about doing that.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

In the playoffs, it's not going to be pretty. There's going to be some games where you don't score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

As a defender I try to keep clean sheets.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

I just like to play, to pass the ball and dribble.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

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

I defend my goal as if it were my home. I do my best to defend it and not to allow anyone to score goals or penetrate that. It's true.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

I want to score goals and make goals.

That is the way it is in football: once a scorer, always a scorer.

I get upset when people score on us, especially when it's an easy basket. Everybody's super talented in this league, but you want to make it tough for guys.

I am a professional player, and I will naturally do everything to be in goal.

You have to win on the ball.

Anybody plays a good match, you can beat anybody on a given day.

I try to play my game; I try my best to recover the ball quickly: that's my job.