Quotes About Ronaldinho

#1. For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.

Edgar Davids

#2. He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy.
(on Ronaldinho)

Pele

#3. Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi.

Antonio Cassano

#4. Yes, Ronaldinho is bigger than me. Exactly 4 centimeters.

Pele

#5. Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!

Frank Lampard

#6. Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen.

Lionel Messi

#7. Even if I built a 50,000-seater stadium and bought Ronaldinho, there'd still be complaints about crap hotdogs.

Simon Jordan

#8. Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do.

Deco

#9. It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.

Neymar

#10. If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

Frank Lampard

#11. Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker.

Sergio Ramos

#12. I have now played with both him (Cristiano Ronaldo) and Ronaldinho. And Ronaldo is top in Europe at the moment.
Both of them in the same team would be like a bomb. It would be an incredible spectacle for the people.
What's more, I am totally convinced the two are able to play in the same side.

Henrik Larsson

#13. Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.

Diego Maradona

#14. No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history.

Neymar

#15. When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

Ronaldinho

#16. Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill.

Luca Caioli

#17. Nowadays, Messi is better than Ronaldinho. He is the best footballer in the world right now. And I'm not the only who says so. Everyone who has seen him play says so too.

Sergio Aguero

#18. Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.

Zinedine Zidane

#19. The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Ronaldinho

#20. I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

Ronaldinho

#21. Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

Ronaldinho

#22. I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

Ronaldinho

#23. No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

Ronaldinho

#24. Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.

Ronaldinho

#25. I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week
even while away from the field.

Ronaldinho

#26. My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Ronaldinho

#27. It doesnt change much for me really and my motivation remains the same - to create a beautiful future with Barcelona, winning many titles.

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#28. Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Ronaldinho

#29. My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

#30. It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

Ronaldinho

#31. Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

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#32. I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

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#33. My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

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#34. Ever since I was a kid, I've dreamt about winning the Brazilian league, and I still dream about it now. I am doing everything I possibly can to make my dream come true.

Ronaldinho

#35. It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch

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#36. For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

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#37. The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.

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#38. I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.

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#39. I helped Messi and I know he will do the same with Neymar.

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#40. Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

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#41. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

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#42. I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

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#43. I am very pleased it has all been resolved. I wanted to stay at the club and they wanted me too, there was never a problem. There were only a few small matters to sort out,

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#44. I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

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#45. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister ... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Ronaldinho

#46. I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Ronaldinho

#47. Our confidence comes from our preparation.

Ronaldinho

#48. A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

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#49. My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

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#50. I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.

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#51. If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

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#52. 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.

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#53. I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

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#54. Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.

Ronaldinho

#55. No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

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#56. God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

Ronaldinho

#57. I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

Ronaldinho