Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Roberto Carlos
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.
I used to go a lot to F1 when Real Madrid didn't play at the weekends. It was a lot of fun and I always wanted Real Madrid to play on a Saturday so I could watch F1 on Sunday!
I honestly can't tell you that this or that has been the best, my entire career has been great.
It was a coach called Adailton Ladeira who first asked me to play as left-back in 1988. I was a left-winger, but our left-back was injured at Uniao Sao Joao, my first club, and he asked me to fill in. I said 'no problem,' and I've played there ever since.
There will never be another Ronaldo 'Fenomeno.'
You should be relaxed before taking the free kick. You should have confidence in your ability and happiness that you are going to score a goal.
I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.
The last 26 years of my career have all been great.
The coach of Madrid must be very fond of the players and should not put them under a lot of pressure.
Zidane is a leader in the dressing room. His personality is going to make him very successful.
From close range the free-kick is taken with inside of the foot. I will take a run-up of two or three steps and take the kick with the inside of the foot and the ball will travel in a straight line towards the goal. If it is a long-range free-kick, then I will use the outside of my foot. The ball will turn in the air and head towards the goal.
Messi is phenomental but in my opinion, Cristiano is a special player because he does everything for Madrid.
My goal one day is to be Brazil coach, but to get there I need to have a club career. I started well in Turkey. I started well in Russia and I did a good job in India.
I was lucky enough to win the Intercontinental Cup twice and I know first-hand how important international competitions like the FIFA Club World Cup are to both players and fans.
Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.
When you play for a club like Madrid, you always have to stay in the present, because everything is so intense: the sprints, the headers, the tackles, the training sessions, the away trips, the hotels. The victories and the defeats.
I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.
For me, David Beckham will always be a legend... everything David represents for soccer, as an example to children, is reserved for very few people.
I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.
The quality of Indian players is very high. They need to show motivation to perform at the highest level.
In the modern game, players need to train harder than they did in my day.
There are so many great players in the Premier League and of course the big teams are always the favourites, but the teams below them also play good football. The mixture of foreign and English players works really well.
I love English football because it's real football. I love everything that surrounds it. The public, the atmosphere, the preparation.
I watch the Premier League every weekend. I think it's fantastic. One thing you notice is that the teams considered small are capable of surprising the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and City.
The best tactics are those which lead you to a win.
Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.
I came close to joining Villa early on in my career but nothing happened. I met with them and also with people from Birmingham but nothing materialised.
My philosophy has always been to try to solve problems with a smile on my face.
Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.
It was a disaster. I need to play with freedom, and Hodgson didn't let me cross the halfway line.
The longer you stay in Madrid, the more you realise what this club means to people - not just in the city but also elsewhere in Spain and around the world. No matter where we played, we'd see our fans. No matter whether we played a Clasico or a small cup game, the Bernabeu would be full.
Ayrton Senna is the Pele of F1 for me. He is the number one for us Brazilians so he left a huge impact on me.
I don't like it when my friends get used.
My season with Delhi Dynamos was very special.
If I go to a club and marry a project, I go to win.
I don't have enemies.
Plan your free-kick and imagine where you need to hit the ball. Hang a T-shirt under the bar and try to hit it with the ball.
I met Ronaldo in 1993 and from that moment we always shared the room. I've slept more times with Ronaldo than my wife.
I want to make history as a coach, just like I did as a player.
There aren't many who can take good free-kicks.
Whenever I'm asked about Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, I always answer: 'Neymar is the best,' not just because of his goals but because of the ease with which he plays.
It's great to see Zizou doing so well. He was a very quiet team-mate, he didn't speak much, but he was a phenomenon on the pitch and he was learning all the time. We didn't know he was going to be a coach but he always had the qualities for it.
When I was playing for Real Madrid, we competed in the UEFA Champions League most of the time and won it three times. When we didn't win we always ended up in the later rounds.
Cafu was a leader on and off the pitch and it was he who invented the concept of right-backs running from corner to corner.
My father is an athlete and I wish to be a hero like him.
I can tell you that the Galacticos era in the early 2000s wasn't just memorable for the fans. It was also incredible to be part of as a player. You would sit in the dressing room, look around you, and see the Ballon d'Or winner, the Spanish player of the year, the top scorer in La Liga, the best goalkeeper in the world.
The best I've played against is Luis Figo. As for team-mates, it has to be Zinedine Zidane. He made things easier for everybody.
When one talks about six coaches in four seasons something's wrong, something bad's going on.
Fenerbahce really made me feel at home and the fans loved me.
There are seven days in a week. I take seven free kicks daily.
There is a magical feeling when the Champions League music sounds at the beginning of each game, it is the biggest club competition and is the trophy that every player wants to have.
I'm a modern coach when it comes to training. I pick a lot of things up and I watch a lot of training sessions and follow a lot of leagues around the world.
You know what, lots of people are bothered by how I am. They think I'm arrogant! That is the way I am - I'm a very happy man and I love to make people happy.
Ronaldo was a phenomenon, but Zizou had something apart. Playing alongside him was a crazy thing! Supporters arrived earlier at the Bernabeu just to see him warm-up!
There are always more trophies to win in football.
Remember to always smile.
One of the best moments was playing for this small team in Brazil called Uniao Sao Joao - the first match was the best, the most interesting, I loved it.
Playing in international club competitions and winning international trophies for my club was a truly special experience for me.
Real Madrid is bigger than egos. The club is huge and the culture of the club was so big that we were able to sign huge players. It was then up to the players to adapt to the culture and not the other way around.
Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.
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