RYAN BABEL

It is a normal thing for a young player to want to prove himself in the Premiership.

We can't all be Lionel Messi, even if we want to.

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at an average team.

The Premiership is maybe the best league, it's a very high level.

I've tried to work as hard as possible.

If you see the kids now they have attitude and a strong character. They play one or two games and demand they are involved. I didn't have that. I was too polite. It is not maybe always good to have fight, but gives a stamp - it shows directly that 'I am here. I mean business.'

Everything I did on the left I had to learn in a 4-4-2 system, it wasn't natural. To collect the ball on my wrong foot.

England is the biggest league in the world. Of course, you have Barcelona and Real Madrid but, as a league, England is in my opinion the best in the world.

My feeling about Al Ain was very positive, was very good, and if my feeling wasn't like that I would never have come.

Liverpool is my club. I try to follow every game. I still support them, I wish them all the best.

When you can win with a couple of goals, it is always really good for confidence.

I tried to go to places I'd enjoy playing.

England is of course a great country to play in, and I'll always be open for a return. But it has to be a club I feel good about.

I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.

To be a supersub is mentally hard.

During your career, you have to make decisions. Sometimes maybe you don't make such a good decision and at the end you have to try and recreate a position.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

It doesn't annoy me that I always get asked about my future.

I feel confident that I'm good enough to play a lot of games for Liverpool.

I came in on time, I was always a professional.

They used to have selection days for all the local kids and I went to these trials three times and got turned down every time. On the third time I was so upset because I thought I was not good enough. I was eight years old and I had the feeling, 'That's it, I don't want to play for Ajax any more!'

I don't go to church every week.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.