Quotes from Javier Zanetti

I am enjoying everything football has given me, and I want to enjoy to the maximum every chance I am allowed.

I never settle.

The bond between Inter and I will last forever.

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

My story is like many other stories. I started very young. As the years went by, I only cared about playing football. I was never obsessed with money or being a professional though.

I always give my best in training as if it was a Champions League final.

The Champions League is more important than the Scudetto.

Football always gives you a chance to set the record straight. Things go full circle and end up the way they should be.

Inter are one big family to me and the club is like a second home to me.

I'm a fan of Independiente, so I'd naturally like to wear their colours, and I also like Banfield, who gave me a lot as a young player. Either would be nice.

I dreamed of ending my career with the Inter shirt, Inter is my house and I'll try to give my contribution off the pitch as well.

I am a precise person in everything I do.

We believe in a better world, an unglobalised world, enriched by the cultural differences and customs of all the people.

Rafael Benitez and Mourinho are coaches with different ideas, but both want to win.

It wasn't my target to work as Argentina team manager.

I do not like to discuss a game with the other players right after the final whistle.

A lot of things, experiences I had, helped me to grow up and mature, both in terms of my football career and my private life too.

It's an honour for me to wear the Inter shirt. To have been involved in so many important moments that all of us and our fans will keep in our hearts and minds forever, I feel privileged.

Maldini was a key figure in world football. I have always had great admiration for him as a player and as a human being. I faced him in many derbies - he was tough but always very loyal.

Strikers get periods like this, periods when you do everything right and others when you can't do anything properly.

I had chances to leave Inter, but this is my home. I stayed here even in times of difficulty and I was always sure that the winds of change would come through.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

It is always a great feeling to win.

My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and I to study. This is where I get my work ethic from. This is also the source of my generosity and willingness to help.