Quotes About Soccer

Cristiano Ronaldo is good, but Messi is 10 times better.

Having Leo Messi and Barcelona is good for La Liga - it's a real delight.

It's harder to defend against Lionel Messi than Cristiano Ronaldo.

If you ask me who I would have liked to play with, I would say that with Messi.

How do you mark Ronaldo? You try not to leave him alone and don't let him shoot on his right foot. As for Messi... you just make the sign of the cross!

I'd like to play against Messi and Iniesta.

Messi is one of the best of all, but I'm sure Neymar will get to that level.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suarez all play at a really impressive level and are consistently excellent.

Whenever I'm asked about Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, I always answer: 'Neymar is the best,' not just because of his goals but because of the ease with which he plays.

I don't know many footballers except Maradona and Messi.

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

All I know is that I'd put Messi and Ronaldo in my team and eight others. I'd also have Petr Cech in goal and I'd play myself too. The three of us up there in the front line: Messi, Ronaldo and I.

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 the best player in the world, but he's not invincible.

How do we stop Messi? I don't know.

I like the Ronaldo Flyknits even though I'm a Messi fan.

My dream five-a-side team will be: me, Messi, Ibrahimovic, Maxwell and Thiago Motta.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a match-winner too and scores a lot of goals, and when you talk about the best player in the world it's between those two, though my vote would go to Messi.

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

I used to track back from midfield but I never saw myself as a defender. Dave Jones thought I could do the job and then Glenn Hoddle after that. He showed a lot of faith in me and told me, even back then, that I had the ability to play for England.

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.

When I play in central midfield, that's my favourite position.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.