Roberto Carlos Quotes

It's quite easy in football when you can bang it into the top corner.

Romario had the best first touch and the best pass to score a goal.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

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.

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.

I'm not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there's an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.

I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

If I take a penalty, I prefer to take it with my right foot.

I am a defender, but I can play the ball. I have a good technique.

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

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

Neymar will never fail to have technique and creativity.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

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

The players who tend to make the difference are often great dribblers. Some are very fast; others have a repertoire of moves and feints. These players need to have great technique in order to be good dribblers. But I'm not a good dribbler.

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

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

I have the ability to score goals.

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

Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.

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

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.