Michy Batshuayi Quotes

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

The position in the middle of the field is the position I'm most comfortable with and where I can improve the most.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

My favourite position is as midfielder, playing with Xabi and Khedira.

I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.

I only try to play good soccer.

I like to take a little bit from every midfielder I have played against, whether it's physically, technically, tactically, just to try to improve my game.

I am an attacking midfielder, and I have scored goals, but I want to score more and win more.

Some lads were dribblers, some lads just loved scoring goals, whereas I enjoyed and took pride in practicing my passing and that. That's how it was.

I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.

I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.

I am a central midfielder, and that's where I like to be.

John Terry has developed my game for sure.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

I just say I'd like to be an attacking midfielder.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.

I think Messi is an absolute giant in the game. Not so much because of his dribbles and actions. That's why most people rate him. But I think, differently from others, that he is phenomenal in his teamplay and combination play.

I see children now, and many things surprise me: they ask me about my boots and why I don't dye my hair. I wonder, 'Why don't you talk to me about how to cross the ball, control it, the position of the body when I strike the ball?'