Fernando Torres Quotes

It's difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He's very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.

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

Messi has the best technique in the world.

I love Mbappe. He is so quick, carries the ball so fast, and can run the length of the pitch.

I'm an attacking player, and I can play wide.

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

Carrying the ball is one of the strongest points in my game and I like to be a danger on the pitch.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

We all know what a great player Cristiano is.

I always liked how David Beckham played - his set-plays and his dead balls.

I used to watch Beckham and Andrea Pirlo. Players like that, they had a fantastic right foot on them; everyone knows that.

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.

Football is a game of moments now and if someone does four step-overs, they've had an incredible game. That's not something I do.

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

There are a lot of great midfielders in the world, with each having their own unique style.

The way Cristiano Ronaldo plays is incredible.

Messi is phenomental but in my opinion, Cristiano is a special player because he does everything for Madrid.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

One of my friends, Bruno Andrade, was so quick, he just used to knock the ball past whoever he was playing against, and I thought, 'Why can't I do that?' Until then, I would try to dribble and maybe try a stepover, but Andre would just knock it then - beep, beep - and he was so fast, he would get there first.

Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.