Abdoulaye Doucoure Quotes

I have played football since I was five years old. This is my core skill and it will always remain so.

I play football like I dance.

I think I can play both deep field and inside the box.

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.

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

Football is about balance.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.

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

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

Soccer was actually my first love, but eventually, basketball took that over.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

My father was a footballer. I used to play a lot as a kid, but not like a team or something, just with my family having fun. It makes your legs stronger and helps your co-ordination.

When you play football, you have to do a lot of running.

I think when I move well, that's the key for my best tennis.

Football was easy because I knew what I was doing, and it was in my control.

The game was different then, when I used to play. The ball ran more than the players and to some extent there was greater technical skill.

I'm a great player. I play fast; I'm a great tackler.

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

If they want to kick the ball up in the air, I will challenge all day long.

You have to be smart as a football player.

I played football when I was a kid, it is such a fun sport to play, I fancied myself as a midfielder until I grew too tall and discovered basketball.