Aaron Ramsey Quotes

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

You need to know exactly where to be on the pitch at all times.

There are a lot of things you learn from playing wide. You also understand the way that you can coordinate with the front three or front two.

Defensive moments are for each and every player.

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

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Yes, many times an assist is more difficult than a goal; you need to find the right space and measure the force used in order to provide your teammate with the right position in order to score.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

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

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.

A big part of my game is movement. The players that I play with understand that and took the time to see where I like to run, and it's worked out.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

When you think shoot, shoot, shoot you miss open passes.

We can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team. In front of goal, he's like a machine. You can't shut him out completely; he always gets his chances in a game because of the lines he runs and his excellent timing.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.