Top 33 Mario Gomez Quotes

I think a lot of people write off strikers like me, the true number 9 who hangs out at the top of the box. I mean, even I wanted to be a player like Romario as a kid.

I’d call my time at Bayern Munich a roller-coaster ride.

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.

What matters and what remains are the titles you win with a team. League and Cup, that’s what matters.

Sometimes you’ll go up against keepers like Casillas – the ‘penalty killer,’ as many of us call him. Other times, there’s that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

I know from my Real Madrid team-mates Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira and my family in Andalucia that people look up to me in Spain.

I have played for many clubs, and for many managers, and been through many highs and lows. But one thing has never changed. And that’s the feeling of scoring a goal.

Of course I want to score more goals in the Champions League. But I never want to compare myself or be compared to Lionel Messi.

It is not always easy to change country.

At 26, you’re in your prime as a striker. And in the mid-20s you’re more mature, you have experience in game-deciding situations, you stay relaxed.

One can always improve, but I know my strengths and I know that I am complete.

As a young player, national duty always felt kind of like… a duty. It was always there, it was normal, it was part of the job.

The rotation system at Bayern makes it nearly impossible to play week after week, even when you’re putting in some top performances.

I came to Munich full of confidence, with plenty of energy, and really looking forward to it, in a way I don’t think I’d had in my career before.

I am not crazy enough to compare myself with Messi because he is the best there ever was and the best there will ever be.

The Bundesliga is extremely attractive. In the long run it will be the most attractive league of all.

Life normally rewards you for hard work.

I’ve got nothing to teach to the Italians – I love playing in this league.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it’s misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

Winning is why we play football.

I don’t have any use for the hatred in a football stadium.

Bayern Munich made it possible for me to achieve the greatest wish of any footballer: Winning the Champions League.

Merkel is a big fan of football.

When it became clear that I couldn’t stay at Bayern I thought about going to play in Spain or Italy. Fiorentina came forward, they were looking for a striker, and everything happened very quickly.

I am a forward and want to score many goals but for me that is not important. What is important is to be successful with the team.

I don’t measure my performances in goals any more, it’s more important that my team-mates see how hard I work for them.

I just stand there up front and score the goals, because that’s my job.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

Winning the cannon was a childhood dream.

We have to win if we want to be champions.

Italian football’s different to Spanish and German, but it’s only different and not inferior.

I have no fear of anyone.

Sometimes football is a crazy thing.