Franck Ribery Quotes

Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.

I deserved to win the Ballon d'Or.

Playing in a competition like the Champions League is important for a player; it makes you feel much more of a professional in this sport.

Anything like having a good season at home for the club, or going as far as you can and having a great Champions League, has its repercussions when it comes to the Balon D'Or winner.

I would love to win some major trophies, and I would love to win the Ballon d'Or; that would be a perfect career.

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

I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

Marta is one of my favourite players, and one of the best players I've had the privilege of coming up against, so I say this with the greatest respect: there are other players who were in a much stronger position to be named the best female player of 2018.

The Ballon d'Or nomination is a good achievement for Pogba.

If the Ballon d'Or was fair, Xavi would have won five or six. He deserves all the respect in the world.

In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.

I don't need the Ballon d'Or to know I'm the best. It matters more to some players

You want to feel special as a striker; you want to be the main guy, and you know, if the coach wants you, he's going to be good for you.

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.

If people only knew how much I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. I will repeat it to make myself clear: I respect Cristiano Ronaldo.

If you're happy being at a big club but playing reserve team football, I never really understand that.

All I want to do is win the Premier League and Europa League - I don't stop to think about being named as the Player of the Year. It's not something that interests me.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

I definitely want to be successful in the Champions League, having never been involved in it before. It's where the best players prove themselves.

Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.

At the FIFA World Player of the Year event, FIFA executives and FIFA president Sepp Blatter didn't know who I was. And I was being honored as top three in the world. That was pretty shocking.

I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon d'Or, that would be historical.

I know some people expected me to be a Ballon d'Or winner.