Toby Alderweireld Quotes

I personally like the way John Stones plays because I think he's a great defender.

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

I do like to play and pass the ball. But first and foremost I see myself as a defender: blocking, tackling, heading.

I'm a player who likes to get on the ball and use it.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

Ronaldinho takes great free kicks and has scored a lot of nice goals from free play.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.

I see children now, and many things surprise me: they ask me about my boots and why I don't dye my hair. I wonder, 'Why don't you talk to me about how to cross the ball, control it, the position of the body when I strike the ball?'

I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

I can keep the ball and pass it, and I've always felt comfortable with the ball at my feet.

We all know what a great player Cristiano is.

I'm an attacking midfielder.

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

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.

People expect you to dribble past 10 players and put the ball in the back of the net.

I watched a lot of Alessandro Nesta videos, as he had similar characteristics, studied carefully and applied myself.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

Pique has been a great centre-back.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

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

Messi has the best technique in the world.