Franck Ribery Quotes

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

Iniesta deserved to win the Ballon d'Or. To win it, you have to be lucky that the attackers have not done so well. If Messi and Ronaldo score 50 or 60 goals, they will always give it to them.

Obviously, I'm honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.

I deserved to win the Ballon d'Or.

Zidane is a very great player, a very calm player.

Moise Kean is Moise Kean and Lukaku is Lukaku. It doesn't make sense to make these comparisons.

The Ballon d'Or has never been something that I've missed.

So many guys come onto the scene who aren't supposed to be there. You pull for one, and then you see there's another and another and another, and you start to say, 'Who cares where a player was drafted? He can play football, and he can play at this level.'

Thomas Muller is an excellent player.

Mario Gotze is a great player, but one of my favourites is Marco Reus, who is a fantastic player, and one of the very best.

I've been Offensive Player of the Week. I've been Offensive Player of the Month.

I am not a great artist like Maradona was with regards to on-the-field matters.

I think that Balotelli could be as good as Torres - and even better than him.

I don't like to talk about players who haven't played; I prefer to talk about the ones who have.

I'm not a fan of Paul Pogba. Maybe he is a talent, but I don't see him as any more than that.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Systems don't win, players do.

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.

Suarez will improve and he will get better.

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.