Ander Herrera Quotes

Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.

I'd say I was an attacking midfielder, and if you are going to be one of the best, you have to score goals and create them.

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

I've got a defensive responsibility as well as trying to get goals and assists. I'm trying to do that.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

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

If you've got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.

Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I like playing just outside of my own penalty box, the player who receives the ball and organises the game.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

Normally, I play in midfield where I'm challenging the players and trying to take the ball.

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I'm alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.

I'm usually a No. 10, and the thing I most enjoy is helping my team-mates and creating goal-scoring chances for them.

I want to play in every match, score goals when the opportunity presents itself, and help players in good positions to also score goals.

There are teams in England who play the football I like, keeping the ball on the ground, playing a quick game with one-twos, pressing their opponents high up the pitch. If one of these clubs were interested in me, I'd adapt to them well, and they could adapt to my way of playing, which isn't so common.

I am an attacking midfielder, and I have scored goals, but I want to score more and win more.

Some lads were dribblers, some lads just loved scoring goals, whereas I enjoyed and took pride in practicing my passing and that. That's how it was.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

I used to say I preferred midfield because I enjoy trying to make goals, and scoring is a buzz.

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