Ryan Babel Quotes

Ryan Babel

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 19, 1986

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

Ryan Babel

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

Ryan Babel

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

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

I like to explore the world.

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

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

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Music has always been an important part of my life.

Ryan Babel

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

Ryan Babel

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!'

Ryan Babel

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

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

English fans and the English atmospheres are special.

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

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

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

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.

Ryan Babel

I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should've stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.

Ryan Babel