Ronaldinho Quotes

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I have always said I want to work harder so I can develop, learn, grow, and improve. I love to play football, and when I come on the pitch, I want to do my best to help the team. It's up to the coach the position I play.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

Football is something I would never give up on, whether I ended up playing professional or in a Sunday league team.

I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

My dream was to become a footballer. I started loving football so much that I followed my dad wherever he went and spent all my time playing football with friends out in the fields. But my parents also taught me the important values and principles in life of respect and to raise me in that way.

If you are going to be successful in football you have to make sacrifices and that's something I am happy to do.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

Football is still the most important thing. It keeps me focused and driven every day and that takes me on to be the best dad, son, and friend.

Football is an important part of my life, but not everything.

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

As long as I am playing football, I am prepared to play wherever I have to.

I give my life to football.

Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.

For me, I want to win the World Cup. If that's not the goal then I don't think you should be playing.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.