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Ronaldo’s ability on the ball, displayed in games and during training sessions, drew praise from his Madrid colleagues, with Zidane stating, “Without hesitation, Ronaldo is the best player I ever played with. He had such an ease with the ball. Every day I trained with him, I saw something different, something new, something beautiful.” Michael Owen, who joined Madrid in 2004, acknowledged that he never got the chance to play with Ronaldo in his prime when “he had absolute blistering speed and strength, mesmerizing foot speed, he was just a blur, he’d be that fast”, before adding, “even in training, he showed more than enough to convince me that I would have loved to play with him at his peak.”

during the same game they also shared a memorable goal celebration with a low-five hand slap.

Referencing Ronaldo’s usual goal celebration of arms outstretched, Pirelli ran a 1998 commercial in which he replaced the figure of Christ from the Christ the Redeemer statue (pictured) that towers over his home city of Rio de Janiero while in an Inter Milan strip. The commercial was controversial with the Catholic Church.

Playing deeper in his prime with an ability to create chances for himself, Emilio Butragueno stated, “Ronaldo creates a goalscoring opportunity where it doesn’t exist. Most strikers need the midfielders and their teammates, but he does not.” On his speed of thought Kaka states, “For me the best players are those who are able to think of a play and execute it quickest and in the best way possible, and Ronaldo was the best at that. The speed of thought he had – and the speed he had to carry out his actions – were perfect.

Ronaldo relied on his superior natural ability application in training often wasn’t on the same level as his teammates – his Brazil and Milan teammate Emerson states “Ronaldo felt he didn’t need to work as hard as us, that he could do in two days what the rest of us would take ten days to do. And usually, he was right” – Peter MacDonaldo compare

Comparing his natural ability to Roger Federer, Paul MacDonald of Goal writing, “there’s a joy to be had watching something we know to be extremely difficult executed with considerable ease. Ronaldo in his prime was able to do that better than anyone who has ever played the game." Displaying an effortlessness in his game, his reliance on his innate ability is given as a reason for his application in training often not being as high as his teammates – though his knee issues may also have been a factor – with his Brazil and Milan teammate Emerson stating “Ronaldo felt he didn’t need to work as hard as us, that he could do in two days what the rest of us would take ten days to do. And usually, he was right”.

Ronaldo’s natural ability has been compared to Roger Federer, with Paul MacDonald of Goal writing, “there’s a joy to be had watching something we know to be extremely difficult executed with considerable ease. Ronaldo in his prime was able to do that better than anyone who has ever played the game." Displaying an effortlessness in his game, his reliance on his innate ability is given as a reason for his application in training often not being as high as his teammates, with his Brazil and Milan teammate Emerson stating “Ronaldo felt he didn’t need to work as hard as us, that he could do in two days what the rest of us would take ten days to do. And usually, he was right”.

Ronaldo appeared in Marge Gamer episode of The Simpsons. In season 18 April 2007. In 2007, Simon Crerar of The Times listed Ronaldo's performance as one of the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show. Ronaldo made a cameo appearance in each film of the Goal! film trilogy, Goal! (2005), Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) and Goal III: Taking on the World (2009).

The outstanding influence for a generation of strikers, from Karim Benzema] to Sergio Aguero, Zlatan added,

He changed football. He was the one you would look at. You would see him doing step-overs and you were thinking: ‘Who does this?’ You would see defenders falling over and you were like: ‘Wow’.

“He was 10 out of 10. Maybe even 11. The goals that he scored, and at crucial times. He scored goals where you were like: ‘Oh man, this is not serious.'”