Neymar Quotes

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

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

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

I try to have an impact on every game, whether it's by making runs or using quick moves to try to get by defenders or making a nice pass to help my team.

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.

A forward always has to help the team, either with assists or goals.

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.

Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

If I have the ball in my hands, I'll make a play. If don't, I'll try to get in position to make a play. I think that's what it comes down to.

Carrying the ball is one of the strongest points in my game and I like to be a danger on the pitch.

There are a lot of things you learn from playing wide. You also understand the way that you can coordinate with the front three or front two.

I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I'm alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.

You have to win on the ball.

It is very important as a midfielder to score.

I am an attacking midfielder, and I have scored goals, but I want to score more and win more.

I like to dribble and give the decisive pass to my teammates.

Some lads were dribblers, some lads just loved scoring goals, whereas I enjoyed and took pride in practicing my passing and that. That's how it was.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

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 think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

I just say I'd like to be an attacking midfielder.

I'd rather walk off the park with two goals instead of one.

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.