Richarlison Quotes

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.

Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.

Once I started playing as a striker, I'd say I looked up to Julie Fleeting and Thierry Henry.

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.

For me, sitting there, watching them pass the ball, watching them train - you want to be around good players.

I can win the ball. I can clear the ball.

Suarez and Neymar play the way they play because of him. They are great players but they are made greater by Messi.

I loved scoring goals. I played to score goals. It's what made me happy.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.

The Liga is a tough league, but I'm inspired by players like Neymar and Messi. You have to work very hard to reproduce what they do, especially Neymar.

I always liked watching Ronaldo and Ronaldinho; they were the players who I dreamt about meeting. They inspired me a lot in my own style of play.

Some lads were dribblers, some lads just loved scoring goals, whereas I enjoyed and took pride in practicing my passing and that. That's how it was.

I wanted to be Ronaldinho. I studied him a lot. He was my hero.

I am not a great artist like Maradona was with regards to on-the-field matters.

I had very good players around me in the team, like in the German national team. Andreas Brehme was one of my best partners in the team because he had good eyes; he could always hit the best ball.

When you train with good players or watch matches on TV, you want to do what they do.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

Zidane is a Real Madrid legend. He teaches us things in every training session - even just by playing with us.