Top 60 Bradley Wright-Phillips Quotes

I put a lot of work into what I do.

I think growing up in England strikers are hungry to just get goals. We have a mean streak in us. We like to get goals.

There’s so many things Thierry’s taught me, just how you go about being a professional.

I always wanted to score goals, but sometimes I’ve scored and been terrible and other times I felt I played well and didn’t score. I looked at the statsheet the season where I scored 27 goals and I had one assist and was frustrated.

At the end of the season, goals – they don’t matter.

I always liked fashion. I like to dress up on days off – the weekend and go out – I have a friend that worked in a hat shop in Soho, and he came to me and asked me to design a logo and a hat. I did and I showed it to him and he loved it.

I try to do what I can to help the team.

Where I’m from, everyone wore tracksuits. If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn’t tell me I didn’t look good.

A loss feels like a loss.

I have to be myself.

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.

If you’re going to score, you’re going to score.

It’s hard in England. If I didn’t score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

I’m not too complicated. I don’t think I’m great on the eye. I work hard. I try to outwork defenders, and that’s it.

I’m not Giovinco. I don’t get the ball and dribble past three players.

Sean Davis is one of the best youngsters I’ve been around. He’s got an old head on his shoulders and he’s a very good player.

Who doesn’t want play with Thierry Henry?

In England, we’re arrogant to everything else.

If you’ve got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

When we were younger we were always at it and, as much as I hate to admit it, Shaun would always win.

I like to get in the box and finish.

I don’t really like too much credit. I know nobody’s going to believe this, but I’d rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.

I don’t like to go through games not doing anything and then getting a goal. Obviously that’s my job as a striker, but I feel almost wasted. I want to do more.

I just try to keep my game simple and just get chances. I try to stay on the defender’s shoulder, run behind because they don’t like it and when I get an opportunity, I shoot. If it goes in one day, it goes in. If it doesn’t another day, it doesn’t.

I say this every time I get interviewed, I just try to get my shots on target. If they go in, they go in.

I hate to go into games thinking about goals.

Wenger is a legend for Arsenal. He changed the game in England and he changed how Arsenal look.

There’s players around the world that get assists from number 10s or wingers.

I’m awkward under the limelight.

We like to play with a chip on our shoulder.

I have relatives in New York.

Growing up, I wasn’t a big guy; I struggled to hold on to the ball.

I feel like I’m quick enough, and on my day, I can be dangerous in the box.

I don’t want to define New York Red Bull as one player, or one manager.

When I’m out with Shaun people will come up to him for five minutes, sometimes longer, and as they’re leaving they’ll say: ‘Oh, you must be, erm, Bradley.’ I don’t mind at all.

Growing up all I wanted to do was score goals and celebrate with fans – somewhere in that I got lost. Football came second and it shouldn’t have.

It never surprises me how good Shaun is. Even the coaches are surprised by the things he does and I can understand why. He can strike the ball so hard, yet his legs are only about 12 inches long. But I’ve been watching him do things like that ever since we were kids. I know what he’s capable of.

I’m lucky enough to play with great players.

The Red Bulls have done a good job of challenging me to be a leader, not just be a part of team and score goals, but be someone to be counted on.

I don’t want to go back to Europe. I’ve said that several times.

Making my debut at Man City, playing with my brother, that was a high point and was amazing. Going to Charlton and winning the League One championship. Even when I was at Southampton, my first year there I really enjoyed it.

My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.

I’d rather go under the radar and win an MLS Cup. I really don’t need to be credited.

As long as I’m playing well, I’m happy, and happy playing anywhere.

I don’t choose to be humble.

There’s been a few great moments, I don’t hate my career in England.

I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

I know if I look back there’s a lot of things I look back on and feel proud of in England. My time in MLS has just been better.

The only thing that matters is the MLS Cup.

For me, it’s just a decision I made at home with my wife that I’m not eating meat.

When you grow up in the Premier League and grown up watching it, nothing else compares.

I would stay up till 3 A.M. playing Xbox or Playstation, go training at 8:30 A.M., go home and sleep and wake up at a crazy time like 7 P.M. and eat something ridiculous like a pizza and then get back on my computer. I was not living right and I wondered why I was not starting games.

I’m realistic. I look for my own target that I set in my head beginning of the season. Once I get there, that’s when I start enjoying scoring.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they’re greedy and they want to get goals.

From the bottom of my heart, I’ve always found compliments hard to take. It makes me feel awkward.

I got a lot of unwanted attention when I was young. I’d be at a tournament at age 9 and there’d be loads of people around me. It always made me feel funny.

If you don’t win the MLS Cup it doesn’t matter, so we know that the big one is the MLS Cup and we’ll give our all to win it.

If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn’t tell me I didn’t look good. I thought I was dressed up.

In my career I haven’t been suspended much.