Edgar Davids Quotes

When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you're always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.

As a player, you are more concerned with the moments when you have possession of the ball or are about to receive the ball. You are watching your team-mates and trying to decide what the possibilities are.

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

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

Carrying the ball is one of the strongest points in my game and I like to be a danger on the pitch.

I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.

I like to take a little bit from every midfielder I have played against, whether it's physically, technically, tactically, just to try to improve my game.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That's one of the most important things for a midfielder.

I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

Cristiano - he has it all. He has a right foot, left foot, is good in the air, so quick.

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.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

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

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

One of my friends, Bruno Andrade, was so quick, he just used to knock the ball past whoever he was playing against, and I thought, 'Why can't I do that?' Until then, I would try to dribble and maybe try a stepover, but Andre would just knock it then - beep, beep - and he was so fast, he would get there first.

I think Messi is an absolute giant in the game. Not so much because of his dribbles and actions. That's why most people rate him. But I think, differently from others, that he is phenomenal in his teamplay and combination play.

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

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

Before I receive the ball I already know how that play is developing so I'm able to give rhythm to that play.

If I have the ball in my hands, I'll make a play. If don't, I'll try to get in position to make a play. I think that's what it comes down to.

I am a defender, but I can play the ball. I have a good technique.