Memphis Depay Quotes

Ronaldinho and David Beckham, they took free kicks and took them very well, so there are some players I always try to follow and to learn important things from so that I am able to score goals.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

There are lots of brilliant free kick specialists in the world. But the technique of Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham fascinates me most of all.

I have always been scoring goals, and now the quality of goals I am scoring is better.

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

Romario had the best first touch and the best pass to score a goal.

I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my feet. It's about being used to certain situations, and with time, you will find, chances don't get snatched at.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

If I take a penalty, I prefer to take it with my right foot.

It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.

As a finisher, there are few players as composed as Messi. When you can score as many different kinds of goal as he can, you have every reason to be confident.

There is a no more complete striker than Ronaldo. Left foot, right foot, header - he is in perfect control of everything he does.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

I really try to pride myself on route running, catching and being able to be a mismatch anywhere on the field.

Messi simply cannot be stopped by yourself. Ronaldo is easier because he is more about athletic prowess.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.

I'm not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there's an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.

Sterling is a player that did very well at Liverpool. He is very fast, too, and he is able to create good chances and is always ready to attack and help the team with his speed.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

I know how to score goals. That's what I've done all my life, and that's what I'll continue doing.