Top 220 Scoring Quotes

Watching David Beckham and Ronaldo scoring all these free-kicks, I was in awe.

I do research for every single book, regardless. For ‘Double Dutch,’ I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For ‘November Blues,’ I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.

Even the thunderous master-blasters, like Andre Russell and MS Dhoni, men who now make scoring more than 20 runs per over look simple, often thrive on the right side of an incredibly slender gap between six and out. They are not more lucky than anyone else. They are more brilliant.

I feel I have nothing to prove at all, my scoring rate in La Liga speaks for itself.

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t retire – I love playing for my country.

The things I love are scoring goals and getting in the box, getting on the end of crosses and taking up positions where the ball might fall to you.

I help my team win. That’s overall what I do best. If you watch me play, I’m usually going to be on the winning team. Whether it’s scoring enough points or rebounding enough or guarding the best player on the other team, I’m gonna do what it takes to win.

Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.

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

Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.

Dagenham offered me a two-year opportunity really. It wasn’t a pro deal, just a chance to impress. I was sent out on loan straight away. I got a professional contract on the back of that and it wasn’t until I started scoring in League Two that I actually realized, ‘I’m professional footballer.’

Scoring well is great, but not at the cost of straining yourself. Students need to know that there is a life beyond these marks. They should know that five-six years down the line, they will laugh it off.

Being a home-grown player, I achieved what I set out to do by playing and scoring for Barca. I consider I was a success.

My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I’ve scored the ball at every level.

I would like to do more film scoring, period. Whether it is a big film, a small film, or just anything. I feel like I have a lot to learn, and what better way to do it than on the job?

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional’s judgment.

It’s not about scoring, it’s having that presence out there and managing the game and getting everyone involved.

I’m still operating as a wide player, and I’m still free to express myself, try to get one-v-one and get past someone, and there’s no better feeling than getting over a great cross and someone scoring.

I’ve never been in this position where I’ve had to take an ‘X’ amount of shots, where I’ve had to focus on scoring. All of my career has been being a defensive player just running the floor.

This is the NBA; you can’t stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They’re going to work for every point they get. And that’s my mindset.

In my 14 years, catching 200 yards or scoring 3 touchdowns in a game, breaking a record – none of those compared to winning the Super Bowl for the first time.

You’ve got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won’t do it. I need help with the words.

If I can’t defend my opponent and if he scores as much I’m scoring then he won the matchup.

People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that’s not the case at all. I’m nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much – Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.

When we’re not doing any Pearl Jam stuff, that’s when I’ll probably think of doing something else, whether that be scoring – hopefully more opportunities will come – or doing a solo thing.

Scoring isn’t the only thing in this game.

In the 2007 World Cup, Kelly Smith went to another level, scoring twice against Japan and dragging the team forward with an infectious enthusiasm. She changed the dynamic, and we all followed her lead.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart – it doesn’t get any better than that.

I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That’s not to say that I won’t pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.

I think football must be attractive for fans, and that means scoring goals.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Until I went to Aston Villa I was scoring ‘X’ amount. It just did not happen there. That is it. I have seen it happen with loads of players.

Not scoring in the red zone and turning it over, man, that gets you beat.

The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next – like a kids’ soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who’s off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.

Usually, I can get the job done with guys in scoring position.

I don’t like watching others batting and scoring runs I could be scoring. It is nice to see guys being successful but at the same time I want to be the one out there doing it.

I enjoy creating goals more than scoring them.

There is literally nothing I can describe that’s better than scoring at Celtic Park.

Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.

Obviously when you’re a striker you need to score. The manager’s not going to just play you if you’re not scoring.

With ‘Hannibal,’ it’s like reactive scoring so I don’t get ahead. I don’t read a script; I don’t want to know what’s going to happen until its happening in front of me and I’m able to have an instrument in my hands that I’m playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.

Without the red line, I think it’s going to be a lot more exciting game, and I think you’re going to get more scoring chances.

All goalscorers go on droughts. It is how you cope with that. And it is not just about scoring, it is about what you bring to the team, bringing others into play and getting assists.

Scoring from a dead-ball brings me massive satisfaction. It sets me up as an example for other players to follow, copy, and perhaps even emulate over the course of time. For them, I’m a Juninho Pernambucano 2.0, a Brazilian with a Brescia accent.

I just worry about playing well and helping Liverpool go as far as possible in the Premier League. If that is achieved by me scoring goals, even better.

I like to score goals, as, back in the day, I was used to scoring goals.

I loved scoring goals. I played to score goals. It’s what made me happy.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

When I was playing, it was me playing both ends of the floor, playing offense, playing defense and I gave the ball up with assists. It wasn’t like me doing one thing, scoring 25 and having three assists and one steal.

I’ve always believed that when I play up front and once I’ve scored, then I keep scoring.

We need to develop artists who are not just scoring films. I’m hoping ‘Gully Boy’ can help with that.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

There’s more to Gareth’s game than scoring goals, he’s brought a lot to the changing room.

The most important target is the trophies. Trophies will be more important than scoring goals.

I spent three seasons at Benfica looking to be in the first eleven. Sometimes I got in and sometimes I didn’t. Sometimes injuries denied me. Sometimes the strikers who were in my position, they were scoring and scoring so it was difficult to play.

I love scoring – even in training.

Of course every player wants to score, it’s the most important part of the game, scoring goals and winning games.

I always pride myself on goals and if I can keep scoring, I’ll be happy.

I feel more satisfaction – and attach greater value – to providing assists then scoring myself.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn’t interested in anything else.