Top 45 Edgar Davids Quotes

When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you’re always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.

I’d love to see Balotelli at Juventus. I think he can become the best.

I cherished every moment with the national team – the good ones and the bad ones – because you learn from your mistakes.

You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.

Fashion is important, man.

I just grew up in Ajax with all the players from Ajax. We only had two or three foreigners, so everyone knew each other and knew the system.

I can’t even remember playing a game without pain.

If you play for Barcelona or Ajax or for any top team or top side, they want to see the top players excel every week.

Great players will always be able to play with other great players.

You don’t want to play one year in the Champions’ League and go out. You don’t then establish yourself as a big club.

The only person who can help Balotelli is Balotelli.

It is important to have tough and strong players to win back the ball and give consistency to a team.

Everyone wants to play in the Champions’ League because that’s where it is all happening. That’s where you get the A-status for players. It’s very important for young players.

I think everybody can say that Luis Suarez is a very good player. He’s scored so many goals in the Premier League, and he is definitely a quality player.

I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.

I’ve never had a big dream to be a manager, but I’m a curious guy, and I want to see if I like it.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.

I think it’s important to condemn that. There’s a line, and if you have a racial – racist comment, no, somebody has to act upon it.

I can play left-back; I can play in midfield or on the left or right wings.

When you change team, and you have the right mindset and a coach who respects you, everything becomes easier.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it’s up to you how you deal with things. That’s what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that’s all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.

My previous bosses – Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two – have all taught me something.

All teams are grateful for their fans most of the time because they give you the platform to perform. It might sound like a cliche, but it’s the truth.

The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.

If you approach a player with respect, he will give you that respect back, but sometimes fans are just critical.

Players can underestimate the Premier League.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.

I am a Spurs fan as well, don’t forget.

If you look at most youngsters, they have worked well under Van Gaal. I had never heard of Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich before Van Gaal managed him, and he’s now one of the best players in the world.

When someone makes a racist remark, that doesn’t make him a racist, but you have to say, ‘This the line. You’ve crossed it, and you have to apologize’ – not only to the person who has been hurt but also the people who live with that racial abuse almost all their lives. I think that’s unacceptable if you don’t.

Sometimes I don’t even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.

I just want to enjoy football and show the best I can do.

The truth hurts, and not everyone can deal with it. Every player is different, but they are all entitled to the truth. It is up to them if they can handle it or not.

By playing in the street, the level of Asian football can absolutely improve, as you will get more technical players. They will be quicker, more creative, and after succeeding in the street, it will be a piece of cake for them to do well eleven a side.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

The Champions League is so difficult, It’s like a lottery: sometimes you’re just unlucky.

I think when I played at Juventus, that was the best team.

I have my own brand called Monta, including a specially designed street soccer ball made out of a denim material which fades like your old jeans when used.

I was very fortunate to have a career like this. I wanted to put a lot back for the community.

I am not at all convinced by Pogba. He plays a lot in England – it’s true – but I expected a lot more from him.

Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It’s the beginning of a lot of social gathering.

Ancelotti has managed a lot of big clubs, and I think he would do well at Madrid because Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, and Paris Saint-Germain are big clubs.

I played street soccer; that’s where I started. If you look at South America, that’s why they have technical players.