Quotes About Player

Cristiano Ronaldo is sensational, a very good professional, an incredible goalscoring machine for many years, but Messi is the most complete player I have seen.

For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I've ever seen.

Leo Messi is the best player in the world for me, but look at the others that have been at Barcelona.

Messi is phenomental but in my opinion, Cristiano is a special player because he does everything for Madrid.

I have played against greats, like Ronaldo and Hazard. But I love watching Messi's touch of the ball, his style.

Everyone knows that Messi is the best player in the world by far.

Messi is the best player in history and the best in the world by a distance.

Messi is simply unique. We are never going to find another player like him, and Barcelona will miss him when he retires.

Modric is a great player, one of the best in the world. But Messi is like at a separate table, plays at another level.

The worst coach I have ever had was Roberto Mancini. I never liked his training methods.

I loved LeBron when he was in Cleveland. Loved him in Miami. And loved him when he went back to Cleveland.

My football career was so filled with energy and impactful, as a University of Miami player and the things I did in Canada, that I left a good mark. I left a good impression.

We all know what it means to be a Miami Heat player, the passion and the dedication it takes to be a part of this culture. And I always felt like if I ever got an opportunity to play here, then I would fit in perfect.

I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.

The AZ captain Teun Koopmeiners, a left-footed centre back who can sit in midfield, is probably the best player in Holland in defensive areas.

Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.

As a holding midfield player, you want movement and to play between the lines.

Arsenal wanted me to be a controller in the midfield, an Emmanuel Petit-type.

I've played midfield my whole life.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

Look, I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.

One of my goals is to become the perfect player but you'll never reach that goal if your mindset is not right, I think.

I take the mindset that regardless of what happens on the field, I try to learn from my mistakes, and fix those things and be able to be a better football player than I was the week before.

The reality is, player-fan interaction for the 2020 season is going to be very minimal. Something as simple as charity events guys do year-in-and-year out, probably won't be able to happen.