Jerome Boateng Quotes

I have always been scoring goals, and now the quality of goals I am scoring is better.

As a finisher, there are few players as composed as Messi. When you can score as many different kinds of goal as he can, you have every reason to be confident.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

Romario had the best first touch and the best pass to score a goal.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is one of the best goalscorers in the world and even watching him in training and in games you can learn from him.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

I am a striker, a goalscorer. That is my art.

Diego Costa is a good example. He's doing very well, and he's arguably one of the best strikers in the world, so I have to see what he does and add it to my game.

Every time I touch the ball against Juve, it goes in.

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

I have the ability to score goals.

For me, if the ball's in the net, it doesn't matter if it's an overhead kick or just a tap-in.

I know how to score goals. That's what I've done all my life, and that's what I'll continue doing.

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.

Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.

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

There are lots of brilliant free kick specialists in the world. But the technique of Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham fascinates me most of all.

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.

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

Ronaldo is different from Messi. He is very impressive down the wings.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

I look up to many great players - principally attackers. The two Ronaldos, Romario and Rivaldo all play well.