Penalty Area Quotes

I'm proud to have played 14 matches at the World Cup with the number ten shirt and to have scored eight goals.

Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?

The feeling is that video assistant referees and technology are here to help us, especially for justice in the penalty area.

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.

I try to control my box. I always think the goalkeeper has to be the chief of the box: it's his area, and he has to defend it.

I'm an out-and-out striker. It's my job to hold the ball up, to get in the box and to score goals. And, yes, I keep count.

I am not as dangerous as I used to be. I am not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is something I have lost and something I have to get back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.

When I'm close to the penalty area, that's where I feel more comfortable.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

I'm a striker; my job is to score goals.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

As a striker, I don't get to score a lot of beautiful goals.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

The number 9 has to be the one who scores the goals.

I've saved a few penalties; I'm good at them.

That lad must have been born offside.

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.