Quotes About Goal Scoring

#1. Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Gary Speed

#2. Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me

Martin O'Neill

#3. Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.

Sidney Crosby

#4. The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.

Alvin Martin

#5. Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.

Pele

#6. There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

Mike Babcock

#7. I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

John Terry

#8. I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

Jack Gantos

#9. You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.

Billy Beane

#10. Most kids dream of scoring the perfect goal. I've always dreamed of stopping it.

Iker Casillas

#11. As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

Alan Shearer

#12. There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

Matty Bell

#13. 'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

Anton Du Beke

#14. At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

Paul Pierce

#15. It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#16. I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

John Madden

#17. He who takes his eyes off the goal has a good chance of not scoring!" - Allan Rufus -
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Allan Rufus

#18. We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.

Alan Buckley

#19. My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Venus Williams

#20. One of the many factors that separate children from adults is the apparent lack in children of teleological intent; that, beyond the immediate ambition of scoring a goal or finishing a drawing, they're not trying to get anywhere or achieve anything.

Robert Rowland Smith

#21. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club

Robert Pires

#22. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Bernd Schuster

#24. I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

Michael Owen

#25. Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.

Bryan Robson

#26. [Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.

Michael Owen

#27. You never get fed up scoring goals

Alan Shearer

#28. I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Alan Shearer

#29. Cristiano Ronaldo loves scoring goals. Only HE can achieve what he's achieving.

Toni Kroos

#30. Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year ... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment

Alex Morgan

#31. The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.

Steve Capus

#32. Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

Alfredo Di Stefano

#33. You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

Diego Simeone

#34. It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

Thierry Henry

#35. Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.

Cartier Martin