When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, ‘Hey, I’d like you to score this film ‘The Social Network,’ I said, ‘I’m flattered, but I really don’t have any real experience scoring films, and I’d rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don’t want to compromise our friendship.’
Scoring can be simply a matter of confidence. Sometimes it happens easily.
Scoring a goal is the best thing in the world because it’s the only thing you can’t control or predict.
If I’m not scoring, I better do something on the offensive end.
I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.
It’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.
The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes – forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups – is that I’m still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.
Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You’re going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how you play from the sand really matters.
It’s good to keep working hard, pushing yourself, and, by scoring goals, you get the reward.
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn’t, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
I still remember my quote from the 2007 World Cup, when I said scoring two threes was as good as hitting a six. That was me trying to justify what you couldn’t. To me, and this was before I became director of cricket, we just couldn’t do that again.
Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.
It does not get better than scoring in a Champions League final.
Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.
It’s all fun and games when you’re scoring goals but there will be a time when I’m not and I just have to try and keep doing the same things. Hit the target and, you know, see what happens at the end of the game.
I don’t personally think of myself as an icon, but it’s definitely an incredible thing. Scoring 16 goals at the World Cup is something you only usually dream about.
As a youngster, I got so much attention because I was ahead of the other kids – even when I was eight, nine years old. But I never was really seeking attention, so I didn’t care about scoring 30, 40 points.
Scoring goals is nice, but I’m nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.
Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I’m singing, you don’t got anything to worry about. Don’t gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it’s fun.
When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.
I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800-900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback.
I enjoy playing, especially when you’re having success, when you’re driving the ball down the field scoring touchdowns.
I still remember not scoring against United. You always want to score in the big games.
I understand cricket – what’s going on, the scoring – but I can’t understand why.
I’ve been scoring a lot longer than I haven’t been in my life, so I can deal with the ups and downs of it.
I think it’s a great competition and it’s a great thing to be scoring in the FA Cup.
My dream is to win something here in Italy and I won’t talk about scoring a specific number of goals. I just want to do the best I can.
I’ve always been known more for giving assists than scoring – but of course, I enjoy scoring goals, too.
Jugraj helped me improve my scoring ability from drag flicks, and Dilip Tirkey helped in my defence work. I can say that I have improved with their help.
I’m just trying to help any in any opportunity I get. If that’s scoring the ball, defensively, rebounding.
In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.
Every time scoring against a former club is special because you know everyone around the place.
If I’m on the pitch, and I score, and I’m not going to celebrate, I would rather tell the manager I’m not going to play because what is the point of scoring goals and not celebrating?
When people say I don’t get recognition, it doesn’t matter. If I’m scoring, what does it mean? If I’m still playing well and I’m still helping my team, I don’t care who thinks I’m amazing or who doesn’t.
I’m a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.
It’s not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It’s not heading for the punchline, and also it’s not about scoring goals. It’s about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.
The key word is ‘control.’ I have to get to the point where I can do it like Magic does. That means penetrating, scoring more, taking over on offense once in a while, increasing my range on the outside shot to open things up for the drive.
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
I think scoring runs in the Ranji Trophy is a bit easier than in T20s because the fielders are always inside the circle at the start of the innings and look to attack. So if you push in the gap you will get runs. At the start it is not quite difficult, once you settle down it becomes easier.
You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.
I’m excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
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.
I know my job is not to score goals, but when I’m scoring goals I’m very happy.
When you’re a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
I study the other players in training, particularly the forwards, and I look at how they are scoring goals. What do they do when they finish a chance?
I have always been scoring goals, and now the quality of goals I am scoring is better.
If it’s a nationally televised game in the past, and I’ve been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.
I like assisting goals more than scoring them.
I fell in love with scoring a lot of runs. I never felt 50 or 100 were enough.
The defenders can be clever and use everything within the laws of the game to stop the strikers scoring goals and, while some pulling is allowed, you need to be clever.
Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn’t matter.
Scoring at the big stadiums in Glasgow is something I have dreamed about doing since I was a wee boy and now I have managed to do that.
To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that’s what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.
If the team is scoring, and I’m on the court, that’s as good as me scoring.
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
We strikers, when we’re scoring, we’re confident, and we’ll try and hit anything.
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking ‘I should have done this.’ Scoring goals was all I thought about.
When you’re Scottish you’re brought up to play anywhere and it’s fine to play for one or two games but you need to play in your right position, especially on the back of scoring nine goals for Hull City.
A goal kind of determines how happy I am with my performance and if I have helped the team, so, yes, scoring goals is what I aim to do every time I step on the pitch.
Frank was an example throughout my career at Chelsea, and throughout my career as a midfielder. When it comes to scoring goals as a midfielder, you look at Frank Lampard as a role model.
Things went so quickly from being a sub in Lille to scoring in the World Cup to signing for Liverpool, but I always had good advice from my parents and my religion to help keep me grounded.
I think any time an offense struggles with developing a rhythm, struggles with scoring points, I think the first thing you have to examine is the quarterback.
For me, I want to be scoring goals. That’s what I’m judged on, and that’s what I judge myself on.
