Scorer Quotes

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That’s my No. 1 priority.

Eric Gordon is a great scorer.

It is a pleasure to see Leo, an Argentine, as the top scorer in the Champions League.

I’m used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.

If I’d still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn’t had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

Obviously, it’s my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn’t be a disaster if I didn’t achieve that.

My goals are to be the Bundesliga top scorer and to win the Europa League.

Guardiola disappointed me – he did not treat me with respect. He did not let me become the top scorer in the Bundesliga. For me things were twice as good when Jupp Heynckes was in charge.

My first three years at United were pretty much flawless. In the first we won the treble and I finished top scorer: I was walking on cloud nine. I came back the next year and scored 26 goals.

Paul George is just a gifted guy that has versatility that no one else in the league has – in terms of playing ones, twos of threes, and really just blanket another team’s top perimeter scorer.

Guardiola took the decision to not play me in the DFB-Pokal final. He did not want me to win the trophy as top scorer, so he did not let me play during the end of the season. It was not really so important for me, but I felt it was a lack of respect towards me.

I’ve always been a scorer. So when I went to Arizona, I led the team in scoring both years.

I knew that to be successful, I had to be more than a scorer. I had to become a leader. It’s not about scoring. It’s about doing what my team needs me to do.

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

You can’t think you can find a top scorer for free.

If you’re a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I’m very serious. My missus thinks I’m a bit weird. I’m cold, I don’t have many emotions. It’s very rare I cry.

I don’t really classify myself as a scorer. I’m a ballplayer; I’m a playmaker. I like to set people up and make the game easy for everybody.

Obviously this all-time leading scorer thing I knew was out there and I thought, ‘Man, if I stay healthy, I would like to reach that goal.’

When I’m in the pick-and-roll, I’m looking to be a playmaker first and to score second. When I’m playing off the ball and I catch the ball, I’m looking to be a scorer first and a playmaker second.

I don’t have to be a leading scorer or be the man.

Ronaldo has nothing to prove to anyone, he has proved his talent by being the top scorer in England. He has proved it by winning the Premier League, by winning the Champions League, with Manchester United.

Everybody wants to be a scorer. Everybody can’t be a scorer.

It’s not my goal to be the main scorer. It’s whatever the opponent gives.

Whoever I’m playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

If you’re a better scorer than me, I’ll put you down on the block; you score. I don’t care. I can do other things.

It would be nice to be highest scorer in the Championship.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Players don’t change drastically. Maybe they get more in form if they’re a goal scorer, or they get healthier if they’ve been injured.

I’ve never been a scorer in my life.

I think there’s a role for everybody. Even a guy who‘s not known as a scorer, like a DeAndre Jordan – he sets the best screens, he blocks the most shots, he gets the most rebounds, he’s great for your team, he helps you win games. Like, he helps you win big.

It’s always a tough process when you’re always the best guy on your team, in high school, in middle school, AAU and things like that. Then you come together, and you may not be the best guy on the team. You may have to adjust. You may not be a go to scorer. You may have to be a picker. You may have to be a rebounder.

I can remember, at the start of my career, there were reports of about 100 words here and there, and they would have got your name wrong or the name of the scorer wrong. It just wasn’t taken seriously at all.

It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I’ve always said that I’m not a big scorer, I’m a worker.

Obviously I’m not the greatest scorer in the world or the greatest shooter in the world, but I’m tough and rebounding is something that not too many people want to put the effort into doing.

You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they’re playing. And there’s no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

A lot of people I’ve played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I’m still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it’s like ‘Oh, damn.’

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year’s running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column – winning. Nothing else matters.

When I get in there, I’m not really worried about scoring. I’m just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I’ve been a scorer all my life, so that’s what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to play the game.

Everybody knows I’m not on the floor because I’m great scorer or free throw shooter. It’s because I’m out there to defend and rebound.

I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I’m a really good scorer.

When you’re a scorer, you are thinking about scoring, and everything comes easy.