Mario Gomez Quotes

Mario Gomez

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 10, 1985

Winning is why we play football.

Mario Gomez

It is not always easy to change country.

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

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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.

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Life normally rewards you for hard work.

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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.

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For me, the most important thing is to be part of the team and contribute to the club's success with my performances.

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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.

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

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You score the winner against a tough opponent and you still get heaped on.

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For me, scoring goals is the most fun. That's why I love soccer so much.

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You can't expect our opponents to play cautiously.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

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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.

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It's tough to leave one of the greatest clubs in the world.

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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.

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