Quotes from Dani Alves

I watch loads of football; whenever I am not playing, I am at home watching matches, including the English league.

What's football for? To win. And to win, you have to score more.

I respect people with high levels of self-esteem.

At Barcelona, it wasn't about winning all the time; it was first about how to win.

Barcelona is my home. It's impossible to say that I wouldn't return.

Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.

It is hard to improve someone as a player, but is easier to help someone become a better person.

When you want to win, you are doomed to suffer conflicts.

When I signed for Barca, I knew their playing style was suited to my game.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!

To be a great champion, you have to believe that you are the best, and if you aren't, then you have to act as though you are.

When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.

Barcelona focus a lot on what Barcelona does and not on what others are going to do. It creates a different way of working. Of course we studied our opponents to see their weak points and their strong points, but 70 per cent of the time, it was about us.

At other clubs I have been, at Juventus, at Barca, we had two 'ships': one for the domestic league and another for the Champions League.

I sometimes think that life is a circle. See, I cannot get away from genius. At Barca, I had Messi. At Juve, I have Paulo Dybala. Genius follows me everywhere, I swear.

Before I go up against the best forwards in the world - Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar - I study their strengths and weaknesses like an obsession, and then I plan how I am going to attack. My goal is to show the world that Dani Alves is on the same level.

Criticising is a weapon of the weak.

Jose Mourinho is a great coach. I would really like to work with him, and I once came close. He knows what weapons to use against teams, and he has won everything.

If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it's much better.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

In life, you have to weigh everything up, even when they are just decisions about your career.

My parents gave me a practical example of what life was about, and I won't forget that.

The idea that I might finish my career without going to the Premier League, it is not possible.

I don't have an expiry date. My body is my answer - when I see that I can no longer compete, when my head is not in it anymore, it will be the time to stop.