Teemu Pukki Quotes

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

That's why football is so nice - it gives us the opportunity to react quickly and learn a lot from a situation, what were our mistakes, and where things went wrong.

I'll say there's a lot of good athletes out there, but the key thing that I see missing is being able to put it all together in order to tell a story. In every match you can tell a story.

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

At the quarterback position I would say mental is just as important as physical. Then there's that emotional component too.

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

As for my speed, I'm not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.

Defensive moments are for each and every player.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Everybody knows that I can play defense. I've showed at times that I can score, but I just think they want to know, 'How consistent are you in your moves?'

In football, you cannot only play because of your quality and talent. Defence is a must.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

Without the ball, you can't win.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.