Central Position Quotes

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

I love to play in the middle to be in contact with the ball all the time. I'm very happy to play in that position.

I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I could never cut inside and shoot. It was only when I joined Real Madrid and started playing in a more central position, and then on the right wing, that I suddenly realised I had a really dangerous weapon.

Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.

When Messi has the ball centrally, with time, he has so many options to hurt you.

When you're wide, you're taught to try and get in at the far post so the ball doesn't go straight across, but from that central position, you can use your instinct where to go.

Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .

The center of the stage is where I am.

Of course I am happy to play in any of the attacking roles, but for me, where I can score the most goals is down the middle.

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

Growing up, I played more centrally, which is why, whenever I do get asked to play there, I'm more than happy to do that.

I have never made a secret that I prefer to play centrally, it is where I feel I can get most goals from. At the same time, though, I also understand that you need to make sacrifices for the team.

With Arsenal, I've been playing out wide, which is not me.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

I've always enjoyed getting forward, pushing up-field to help us in our attacks, but I think you can still do that from a central position, too. You don't have to sit deep all the time.

For two or three years I played on the wing, when I went to Boulogne in 2011, I started playing in the middle as a central midfielder.