Ronaldo Quotes

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

I was born close to soccer, and I've been living and working in soccer since I was small.

I was once caught climbing out of the classroom window while bunking a class. I lied that I had to go to the bathroom and the exit was crowded. The principal believed me.

I trained at Celtic when I was a kid. I used to train at Rangers as well. I wore my Celtic shorts underneath my Rangers shorts when I trained there!

I started playing football in Abidjan, my African town, without even having shoes on my feet.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

I was a good liar as a child.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

I've played soccer since I was five.

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

I hardly went to school.

When I was eight, I told my best friend I got a Hilary Duff autograph, but I just signed it myself.

When a child knows there's a secret, they don't know what it is, but they know it's there, and they know they're being lied to.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.