Dries Mertens Quotes

I dreamt of being like Ronaldo and Ronaldinho Gaucho.

Lewandowski is a great player.

I'm no David Beckham.

I am not one of the best midfielders in the world or something like that.

Ibrahimovic is one of the best players in the world.

I'm not David Beckham. I don't compare myself to such a legend.

If you ask me who I would have liked to play with, I would say that with Messi.

I don't think I'll ever be another Steven Gerrard, to be honest!

Paolo Guerrero is a good player - and Mladen Petric also. I think both are really good and even better than me.

The way Cristiano Ronaldo plays is incredible.

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

I would love to have played with David Silva.

My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.

It's brilliant for me to even be considered as being a player who could become as good as Duncan Edwards was.

I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.

Superstar - I mean, when I think of superstar, I think of LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, names like that. I don't know if I can put myself in that category.

Zlatan is one of the top players in the world, in big games, in any games, we know that he can score goals from anything.

I want to be an Arsenal legend.

I played against Ashley Cole all the time in training. For me, he is the best left-back in the world. He was the hardest opponent and I had him every day in training.

For me, David Beckham will always be a legend... everything David represents for soccer, as an example to children, is reserved for very few people.

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.

Who doesn't want play with Thierry Henry?

With Ronaldo being one of the greats, probably one of the best players ever, it's going to be an honour to hopefully play against him.

Ottmar is a big coach and a good gentleman. I don't know if I'm a young Schweinsteiger; I'm another player. I am Granit Xhaka.

I'd compare myself to Zinedine Zidane - a humble guy who just happened to be the best.