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" Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet. "
Ronaldinho
Keep
Him
World
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" Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more. "
Ronaldinho
Football
Love
Great
" The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through. "
Ronaldinho
Me
You
See
" My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. "
Ronaldinho
Time
Think
Right
" I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players. "
Ronaldinho
Style
Best
Talent
" I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician. "
Ronaldinho
Now
Doing
Never
" Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. "
Ronaldinho
Joy
Game
Football
" Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup. "
Ronaldinho
Politics
People
Know
" I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. "
Ronaldinho
Me
Mother
Thankful
" Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field. "
Ronaldinho
Two
John
Men
" 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. "
Ronaldinho
Loved
Time
Want
" Ever since I was a kid, I've dreamt about winning the Brazilian league, and I still dream about it now. I am doing everything I possibly can to make my dream come true. "
Ronaldinho
True
Doing
Dream
" When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger. "
Ronaldinho
Got
Me
Team
" I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers. "
Ronaldinho
Music
House
Family
" My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. "
Ronaldinho
Education
Mother
I Am
" A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control. "
Ronaldinho
Ball
Space
Small
" When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand. "
Ronaldinho
Only
Corner
Grass
" Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil. "
Ronaldinho
Fact
Course
Brazil
" My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win. "
Ronaldinho
I Am
Goal
Best
" For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling. "
Ronaldinho
Good
Me
World
" I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true. "
Ronaldinho
Music
People
True
" I am ugly, but what I do have is charm. "
Ronaldinho
Ugly
I Am
Charm
" Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. "
Ronaldinho
You
World
Country
" My heroes were always soccer players. "
Ronaldinho
Soccer
Always
Heroes
" I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch. "
Ronaldinho
Seeing
Control
Special