Eden Hazard Quotes

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.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I like to play wide, but as a youth, I played more in the middle as a 10.

I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

You have to win on the ball.

When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you're always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.

I saw that Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than 360 goals because he has a great right foot, but a left foot just as powerful.

I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

Ronaldo is different from Messi. He is very impressive down the wings.

I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

If you've got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

I can win the ball. I can clear the ball.

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.