Mario Gomez Quotes

In tournament football, you cannot dwell on things for too long.

When you are playing teams of this quality, you might get one or two good chances in 90 minutes; that is why it is so important that we take them.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

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 on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

When I play, I just try to score goals or assist someone - that's my job.

Every striker has to have that edge. When they are not scoring, or when the team is losing, they explode.

I'm an attacking full-back.

The want to get more runs increases when there is a dearth of it. At those times, it is important to be patient and keep your calm.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.

When you are better than your opposition for 45 minutes and create six chances, if you don't score, you are in danger in the Premier League. It's the best league in the world.

It is very important as a midfielder to score.

I ensure I am focused throughout the game, whether that is making a chance for myself or receiving the ball from a teammate to score.

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

I don't think I'm going to dwell on one pitch. You've got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.

Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.

That's one thing you learn as a quarterback: focus. The better you are at focusing and the more you can continue to stay focused for a four-hour stage and really be zeroed in on what is happening, the better you play, the longer you play.

Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.

Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.