Douglas Costa Quotes

Neymar will never fail to have technique and creativity.

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.

Being able to use both feet was something that came quite naturally to me ever since I started playing. However, it's something I work on all the time to make sure that level never gets any lower.

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.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

I spent hours from 11 until 16 with Tottenham in the gym playing the ball against the wall. We played against the wall for an hour before we would have a match. Left foot. Right foot. In the square. In the circle. Above the line, below it. Chest control. Thigh control. Volley sideways.

When I'm on the field, the trick I like to do most are stepovers. For me, it's a simple, beautiful dribble that also has a point.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

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

I'm working on my final ball, my precision in front of goal, my one-on-one attacking ability, just new ways to beat defenders and help my team.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

I just want to show my speed and my skills as a left back and it's a position where I can go forward and come back as well and help the team both defending and attacking.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

I always wanted to play with both feet, so today I'm happy I trained it so often.

It's harder to defend against Lionel Messi than Cristiano Ronaldo.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Yes, I'm working on playing with my feet, so I take risks.