Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Ronaldo

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian athlete Ronaldo.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Ronaldo

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian business owner, president of La Liga club Real Valladolid, owner of Brasileiro Série B club Cruzeiro and a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Popularly dubbed O Fenômeno and also nicknamed R9, he is widely considered as one of the greatest players of all time. As a multi-functional striker who brought a new dimension to the position, Ronaldo has been the influence for a generation of strikers that have followed. His individual accolades include being named FIFA World Player of the Year three times and winning two Ballon d'Or awards.

Teams are a collective expression.
To play a soccer game, you have to be in very good shape.
I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life. — © Ronaldo
I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.
I had an injury in my leg, and everybody was talking about that. I decided to cut my hair and leave the small thing there. I come to training, and everybody saw me with bad hair. Everybody was talking about the hair and forgot about the injury. I could stay more calm and relaxed and focused on my training.
When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.
I never had a problem with technique.
I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.
I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.
It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.
I was expected to run the same as Roberto Carlos or Cafu, but I just couldn't do it.
I love Messi with the ball at his feet: he scores goals and does all the rest, too. But Cristiano's numbers can't be ignored. It's a cruel comparison. Both of them deserve respect.
My best teammate was Roberto Carlos.
I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice. — © Ronaldo
I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.
Just a tiny bit of effort leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I just go up the stairs to my room, and I feel tired.
I was always a simple guy. I was never one for extravagances.
I feel less energetic; I get pains. My quality of life has deteriorated, and it takes me longer to recover from any form of physical activity.
The two goals in the 2002 final were, for me, the best feeling. It was beautiful.
To go to a World Cup is a dream come true, and I can claim to have experienced that four times.
Paolo Maldini. He was tough, tough, every time we played against each other. And I played against him many times. He's a very good friend.
There are many ways to see football and interpret it.
Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.
Barcelona has always had issues with Brazilian players: Neymar, Romario, Ronaldinho, and me. We were all treated badly by the club in the end, despite all our contributions and dedication.
It'd be best if Cristiano Ronaldo retired at Real Madrid and then worked at the club.
Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.
I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.
I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing.
I am much more grateful and linked to Real Madrid than to Barcelona.
I'm very attached to Real, more so than Barcelona.
With his incredible attitude, with his incredible winning mentality, Cristiano Ronaldo is a unique player.
I assure you that you will find me as a lover of Castilla-Leon, Valladolid, and Real Valladolid.
I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.
All good players are interesting.
Zico was my idol. He was a very good player from Flamengo, and I was a Flamengo supporter from Rio de Janeiro. I was always looking for him and saying I want to be like him. He's my big hero.
I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.
The national team is part of my life. I have an incredible history, of many conquests and also many defeats. But to play for Brazil, I have to have a club and play well. I'm not going to be picked on my past or because of my sponsor, as many have said.
When I stopped playing, I gave up exercising and put on some weight.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.
When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness. — © Ronaldo
When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.
In Spain, the game's a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don't play football.
I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.
I don't think I would have any problem at all playing in England. I'd love it.
I'm only a little interested in politics. But I'm always on top of the news, both in Brazil and abroad.
I'm very uncomfortable, mainly with my belly.
The best team I played in was the Brazilian one in 2002; we felt that we could always score. It was a team without any vanity - or individuals.
Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone, I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He's going to have to tell me everything.
I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
I couldn't have got any fatter; I was running out of clothes. — © Ronaldo
I couldn't have got any fatter; I was running out of clothes.
To associate my name with the United Nations is the best thing that could have happened to me.
At Real Madrid, there will always be people who score goals. They are a team and not a single player, no matter how much one appears more than another.
We lost because we didn't win.
My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.
I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.
I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.
I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.
I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
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