Quotes About Soccer

In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I could never cut inside and shoot. It was only when I joined Real Madrid and started playing in a more central position, and then on the right wing, that I suddenly realised I had a really dangerous weapon.

I used to like playing No. 10 when I was younger, so I enjoy that role. But as I developed, I had to stay on the wing.

I can play in the centre or on the wing, behind one or two strikers, on the left or the right.

When I was younger, I had two players: Luke Shaw and Gareth Bale. When Shaw was at Southampton, he was a left-back, and I loved watching him bomb up and down the wing, create goals, score goals, so I think I try to emulate that. Gareth Bale - same thing, really.

You've got to keep on going up and down the wing for the whole game in that wing-back role, so you obviously need a lot of stamina to do that, and I think I've got that.

Bradley Wright-Phillips

I think off the wing and just behind the striker are probably the two go-to positions, so to speak. I'm comfortable with playing both.

As a wing back, when you get the ball wide, you usually don't have any help out wide. You have to be pretty good on your own out there.

As a number eight or a number ten. I can play on the right wing like Becks used to play, cut inside and get the early cross in. I have a lot to show.

I prefer to play left wing, that's my favourite role.

I'm an attacking player - I prefer left wing, right wing. They're quite even for me.

I've played both right-back and right wing, I can't really say if I am more comfortable in one or the other but both are fun positions for me to play.

If I play on the wing, that's great, and if I play in the center that's excellent.

Ronaldo is different from Messi. He is very impressive down the wings.

I was lucky to see Di Stefano, on the pitch, in person. He was a winner, as is Raul.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.

Clearly Bolt would beat me over 100 metres on the track. But on grass, over 30 metres with a ball at my feet? I'm winning that race every time!

Normally when we play against Brazil, we will just try to stop them from winning.

I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations - and preferably winning it.

So much of my game is owed to Thierry. We text regularly.

Thank God Brazilian goalkeepers are now learning to play with their feet, because that was the big problem.

A great deal of who I am is down to Barca and La Masia - I am very thankful to them.

Throughout my childhood, and thanks to Arsenal's former striker Thierry Henry and other French players, I always dreamed of playing for this club, so that dream has been fulfilled.