Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

When I was young, I always enjoyed watching skilful players and trying to emulate them the same as everyone else.

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.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

Whenever we are en route to a game on the bus I am always watching the goals of Ronaldo, Adriano, and Neymar to get some inspiration. Then, when I am on the pitch, I try to replicate what they do.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.

I like to watch the men play. I like the way that they're playing, and I can always learn something from them. They're playing differently than the women, so I like to learn from them as well.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

When it comes to sports, it requires a lot mentally and physically.

There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself.

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

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

As a cricketer, you need to keep moving and learning every day.

I have grown up as a player watching many champions like Pirlo and Xavi. I have watched them and tried to learn from how they do things.

I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.

Football is all about self-confidence.

I think, in football, you need to be competitive. You need quality. You need to be organised and to push.

As a soccer player you want to perform, whether it's in front of 72,000 or even 1,000. You always want to be your best because you never know who's watching.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.