Quotes About Scoring Goals

#1. [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

#2. If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Ryan Giggs

#3. Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.

Frank Lampard

#4. It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#5. Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

Alexander Ovechkin

#6. Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#7. 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

#8. The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football.
(on returning to the premiership)

Michael Owen

#9. Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

Alan Shearer

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

Thierry Henry

#11. 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

#12. To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#13. It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.

Lionel Messi

#14. He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.

Lilian Thuram

#15. I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

Jermain Defoe

#16. You never get fed up scoring goals

Alan Shearer

#17. I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

David Beckham

#18. If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.

Luis Suarez

#19. Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

Patrick Kane

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

Toni Kroos

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

Alfredo Di Stefano

#22. Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.

Wayne Rooney

#23. I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

Gary Lineker

#24. 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

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

#26. 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

#27. I've always been a player that likes to get round the back and get crosses in for other people. When I first burst on to the scene some people only saw the goals I was scoring. More recently they've taken notice of the goals I've set up. It is nice to be recognized for that.

Michael Owen

#28. 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

#29. When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

Wayne Rooney

#30. Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

Roger Ebert

#31. 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

#32. Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

Adele Parks

#33. He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

David Peace

#34. So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

Jose Mourinho

#35. When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches.

Douglas Adams

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

Alvin Martin

#37. It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

Zinedine Zidane

#38. Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

Teddy Sheringham

#39. 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

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

Alex Morgan

#41. Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Ted Lindsay

#42. 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

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

Bernd Schuster