Marc-Andre ter Stegen Quotes

Being able to use both feet was something that came quite naturally to me ever since I started playing. However, it's something I work on all the time to make sure that level never gets any lower.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it'll just be fluent.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

Since I was a child, I watched tapes of Baggio, Zico, and Maradona, and then I tried to replicate them just playing on my own against the wall. Certainly it's talent, but you have to cultivate that talent.

What I would do after training is stay half an hour and kick the ball against a wall with my weaker foot over and over again to make sure it gets stronger. And young players should remember that everything comes from the base of hard work, so never give up.

You can always get better throwing the football.

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

Even when I was training alone, just me and one of United's fitness coaches, I loved going onto the field, doing sprints, being at the training ground.

The Liga is a tough league, but I'm inspired by players like Neymar and Messi. You have to work very hard to reproduce what they do, especially Neymar.

I have played football since I was five years old. This is my core skill and it will always remain so.

My family has always believed that anybody can do anything if you are trained for it. So I trained with Barry John's in Mumbai, did marital arts, and then went to stunt school in the U.S.

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

Two-footed players always get a lot more recognition, so I always practised as a kid with my right foot.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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

I trained myself to perform on the field.