Quotes by Ronaldinho

About Ronaldinho:

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Fluminense and the Brazil national team. His main playing position is as an attacking midfielder or forward. He won the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2004 and 2005. Renowned for his technique, tricks, dribbling, overhead kicks, no-look passes and free kicks, Ronaldinho is regarded to be one of the best players of his generation.
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Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

Ronaldinho

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.

Ronaldinho

Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fort...

Ronaldinho

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...

Ronaldinho

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

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.

Ronaldinho

My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

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

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

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

Ronaldinho

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

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

Ronaldinho

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

Ronaldinho

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

Ronaldinho

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.

Ronaldinho

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

Ronaldinho

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.

Ronaldinho

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.

Ronaldinho

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

My family is everything. 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

Author Bio

  • NameRonaldinho
  • Descriptionfootballer
  • BornMarch 21, 1980
  • CountryBrazil
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Player