Quotes from Jordi Alba

The rivalry between Barca and Madrid is very big.

Most of the passes that I give Messi end up in goal.

If 10 out of 10 news articles about Jordi Alba are negative, it's normal that people think badly.

I want to play for Barcelona for many, many years.

I'm from here, spending my whole life in Barcelona.

This is a huge club, everyone is interested in what's happening in Barcelona, you lose one game and you are criticised a lot, then in seven days' time you win and everyone loves you again.

It's true that through playing more games our understanding has got much better and now Leo knows me perfectly. He always looks for me - and I look for him - and thanks to that we've been able to score a lot of goals.

You never know what the future has in store, but if possible I'd like to hang up my boots at Barcelona.

Suarez is a top player and he's bound to score many goals.

Barcelona has always had calm coaches.

We want to win everything: League, cup, Champions League and Supercopa.

When you come to the Bernabeu, you have to be very superior to Madrid in order to win.

I can't control everything that's said, but I've been around. Nothing will surprise me.

I needed to play football, and if that was for Barca then great, but all I wanted was to play.

Euro 2012 was my first title, yet most of the other guys have already won plenty of silverware.

All players want to have continuity, to have minutes.

I don't have to convince anybody to do anything. I'm not in the head of any of my team-mates.

I have to work and give everything and when I'm given minutes I have to take advantage of them, as I have always done.

I think I can play with three defenders. I'm capable of doing it.

In each case it depends on the needs of each team, what the club is willing to pay and what the other demands. Then time will tell if a player has been cheap or expensive.

If it were up to me, I would stay at Barcelona all my life. But it does not depend on me but on what the club wants.

The player Jordi has nothing to do with the human Jordi or the Jordi with his teammates.

It's obvious that my dream is to stay at Barcelona. It's cost too much to get here to then have to leave. I have my family here, their support, the fans and my teammates. I don't think I'd be happier anywhere else.

I was not disrespectful to Valencia in any moment and I did not say anything that was out of this world.