I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my feet. It's about being used to certain situations, and with time, you will find, chances don't get snatched at.
When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
When you're a striker, you want to play all the games, and most chances come at the end because defenders are tired.
I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.
For me, it's just finding ways to create shots. I feel like if I got a shot off, it has a good chance of going in. So it's finding ways of creating different shots. Being smart. I watch film a lot, and different tricks that I can do to get my shot off the ball and creating ways to get shots off of pick-and-rolls or one-on-one situations like that.
When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.
Anytime you get good service to the box, it's always great as an attacking player because it gives you more opportunities to score.
If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
If the goals were a bit bigger, maybe I'd score a few more goals!
When Messi has the ball centrally, with time, he has so many options to hurt you.
I don't think it's a problem if you play well and don't score, when you are creating chances.
I've always been a guy to try to create contact; create scoring opportunities based off the free throw line and being aggressive in that way.
I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.
Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.
After matches, the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that, as a goalkeeper, I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.
We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.
Even the best teams, there are times during the year when you cannot win, and you don't know why. Maybe you are unlucky; you make chances, and you cannot score.
Penalties are easy if you score, but in open play, we create chances as well.
What stands out for me are the chances that Cristiano has created and the desire to score that he always has.
I am convinced that when the team plays well, the attackers will have chances to score - and that's why I will have the chance to score.
Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.
As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.
If you play an intense way, an aggressive way, we are good, we can score, we can create chances.
You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it
If you don't score when you have chances then things start to get difficult.
