Cristiano Ronaldo Quotes

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children - all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it's the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can't come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That's why I'm so committed to this work. Later, after you've stopped playing, it's harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.

Thankful Madiba for your legacy and your example. You"ll always stay with us.

I Don't Care About FIFA. This is bullshit.

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing him cry nearly got me going too.

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

I don't like being alone.

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

The last time I cry was when I won the champions. It was one of the best moments in my life.

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well.

It would be a dream if 2015 was like 2014 or even better

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything.

We don't want to tell our dreams. We want to show them

I know who likes football likes me

I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

People are going to think I'm crazy.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

People that really know me, they adore me.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that they become easier. But the tricks I use are the ones that will hopefully benefit the team. What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.

The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

When you're surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat