Quotes from Ryan Babel

I would be so proud to finish my career with a European medal.

I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.

Scoring a goal is always wonderful and gives any player confidence.

I left Liverpool through the back door.

A return to the Eredivisie would be nice, but only if it's Ajax. I don't want to play for another team.

Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.

People try to warn you about certain things, but sometimes you have to experience those things yourself.

Not everybody is following every league in the world so the Champions League is a platform where everybody can see what you're still able to do.

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I don't seem to have any charm for fans.

I do have a weakness for Liverpool and I do want them to be champions.

A lot of people talked down about my career at some point, which makes sense.

I was 20 years old went I went to the Premier League. When you are 20, you need from other people, you need people to talk to you. But when I went over there, nobody helped me.

The striker role, together with someone else, is pretty good for me.

I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

I like to explore the world.

Rafa Benitez promised me a certain development, but very quickly he took away that promise and it was a totally different situation.

My career's been a bumpy road, but at the same time I think I am living proof that if you put enough work into things you decide more or less where you want to end up.

From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and the rest I left behind.

Everything I did on the left I had to learn in a 4-4-2 system, it wasn't natural. To collect the ball on my wrong foot.

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at an average team.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.