Roberto Carlos Quotes

Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.

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.

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

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.

I don't practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot.

Everybody watches free-kicks, and when you watch them, you enjoy them. You have got to learn how to shoot and connect with the ball and how to move your leg. For everybody, it is different, but if you want to score lots of goals, then free kicks is an extra way to do that.

Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.

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.

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.

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

I know I can throw.

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

It's quite easy in football when you can bang it into the top corner.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

I used to watch Beckham and Andrea Pirlo. Players like that, they had a fantastic right foot on them; everyone knows that.

I have the ability to score goals.

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.

I can make any throw.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

My job is to score goals.

There's multitudes of factors of why a kick can go in or not.

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.