Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Babel

Some people think they do it all by themselves but I believe there is more to it. I believe it is God who has given me the talent and the opportunity to be successful.

Liverpool are a very good team everybody knows that and I am proud to be part of Liverpool.

I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.

England is of course a great country to play in, and I'll always be open for a return. But it has to be a club I feel good about.

I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.

It is a normal thing for a young player to want to prove himself in the Premiership.

I do have a weakness for Liverpool and I do want them to be champions.

I just have to try to be patient, keep working hard and doing my best.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

I've done so much in my career but a little part of me feels I still have unfinished business here in the Premier League.

If you don't believe you will end up as nothing. But if you believe a lot you can create a lot.

I tried to go to places I'd enjoy playing.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.

Music has always been an important part of my life.

Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.

It doesn't annoy me that I always get asked about my future.

I like to explore the world.

If there isn't a team that plays my type of game I don't think I could make a big difference. I have to be realistic.

I still believe I can be a striker but, if you want to be a striker, you have to think more about yourself and that's why you are a striker.

I left Liverpool through the back door.

In Holland, you can step into the manager's office and ask him for clarity if you don't know why you're not playing and they are open with you.

The important thing, is to believe in a better future.

We can't all be Lionel Messi, even if we want to.

I've tried to work as hard as possible.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

I was loved in Liverpool, I had good relationship with the fans and my team-mates but I felt I could do better.

Rafa Benitez promised me a certain development, but very quickly he took away that promise and it was a totally different situation.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Playing as a striker is a nice role because I spent all my youth there so that's why I like it.

Yes, there is a lot of competition for places at Liverpool but that's the same at every top club. It was like that when I was at Ajax and that isn't a problem for me.

I've said in earlier interviews maybe I should have stayed one or two more years in Holland.

If it fits in with my career, it will be a challenge for me to play for a MLS team. If that would be Steven Gerrard's club, that would be very special.

Scoring a goal is always wonderful and gives any player confidence.

I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

I don't go to church every week.

I used to play as a striker in Holland. I grew up as a striker. That's the position I want to play.

I feel confident that I'm good enough to play a lot of games for Liverpool.

English fans and the English atmospheres are special.

Everything I did on the left I had to learn in a 4-4-2 system, it wasn't natural. To collect the ball on my wrong foot.

As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.

I would be so proud to finish my career with a European medal.

Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I don't seem to have any charm for fans.

When you can win with a couple of goals, it is always really good for confidence.

A return to the Eredivisie would be nice, but only if it's Ajax. I don't want to play for another team.

From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and the rest I left behind.

They used to have selection days for all the local kids and I went to these trials three times and got turned down every time. On the third time I was so upset because I thought I was not good enough. I was eight years old and I had the feeling, 'That's it, I don't want to play for Ajax any more!'

For a player to really be at his best you have to give him a certain confidence, but I did not feel appreciated by some people at Liverpool.

I'm not the type of player who gives up.

For every player it's nice to go to the World Cup and it's very important to do that in your career.

The striker role, together with someone else, is pretty good for me.

America has always been a special place for me, since my youth.

To be a supersub is mentally hard.

With Ajax and Liverpool, you win about 80 per cent of matches.

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at an average team.

To be underestimated is my biggest motivation.

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.