Ryan Babel Quotes

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

When I know that I trained real hard and I had a good training camp, that's when I'm very confident. But sometimes I don't train hard and I don't feel that confident.

I remember people saying that Atletico wanted me, that they are a big team, and that it will be a big challenge for me. I don't know why, but I just felt really prepared for it, really confident. I went there and tried to do my best in training as well as learn the language really quickly. That was important, I think.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

I have always seen myself as a Real Madrid goalkeeper and have never doubted my ability.

Goalkeeping is very, very much about confidence and thinking you are the man.

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.

I'm not scared of Bayern Munich.

My opinion is I can get open against anybody.

If I wanted to play soccer, I'd step out on that soccer field like I'm the best soccer player. Even though I don't have that much experience, I always try to have that type of confidence in myself just to make people believe it.

I have confidence in myself, which is vital to be a Barca keeper.

I've played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I'm not going to lose it.

It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

You can't be an athlete and doubt yourself.

I think I definitely have the mentality and skill set to be a top-five receiver, that's no doubt.

Sometimes self-esteem affects you on and off the pitch. Until you face your next game and you miss an easy chance, for example, then you feel not as great.

Everyone has their special strength. And my strength is to have the ball and start good things with it.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

I'm good with the ball, I can score.

I think people should recognise that I'm one of the best defenders in the world and not just talk nonsense, I will say.

My own performances at Schalke give me a lot of confidence.