Edin Dzeko Quotes

Leaving a club like Real and coming to as big a club as Manchester United makes you grow as a player and helps you progress in your career.

I want to play more minutes. I'm a player who doesn't want to stay on the bench or not in the squad.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

A few eyebrows have been raised at Adel Taarabt joining Milan. Having worked with Adel for two years, I am not as surprised as most people seem to be. He is a player of immense ability and, if he is handled right, and motivated himself, he can win games at any level.

Like every player, I want to start more matches rather than be used as a substitute.

I think when you're starting you have more of a luxury. You know you're going to play 33, 35, 37 minutes per game, so you can kind of feel the game out. When you come off the bench you have to be more in attack mode. You have to make something happen immediately.

Obviously, I don't want to be a sub, so I will just keep working hard in training. It's not that easy for me as a sub to come on with tempo.

I want to play first-team football.

I am delighted to have joined Manchester United. To work with Jose Mourinho once again was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.

It would mean everything to go up with Fulham. It is the team that has made me a professional, and it's the team that has given me a chance.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

I have got to a level where I feel I needed to make the jump to Chelsea and push myself and get myself to a better level and playing with world-class players here is only going to help.

I never enjoyed being taken off as a striker.

My defensive side was something I wanted to work on, especially coming into the Premier League.

I never got to train with the likes of Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart, but I am from the club where they were. I am not Dutch, but I am from a club where they both played with the same style. They've had really big success when they left Ajax, so I hope I can achieve the same.

Coming to Stoke was a chance for me to develop and take my game to the next level.

Newcastle was tough - the manager who'd signed me, Bobby Robson, got sacked three games into the season, so a new manager arrived, and I ended up going on loan again, to Aston Villa.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

I think when you come off the bench, you know you're going to play, but you don't know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it's kind of different.

I left Bayern because I needed the game time.

In 2008, I moved to Lyon, one of France's top clubs. I had some very strong team mates, and I proved to be at their level. I began training very hard and always respecting my coach's advice.

Mentally, starting the game versus coming off the bench, there are different vibes.

It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

The main thing for me is getting in the starting eleven and making an impact whenever I can come on.

I think you just have to be more aggressive when you come off the bench.