Quotes About Football

In the English league, there are great players everywhere. It's impressive.

It's impressive to be compared with Hierro.

For me, it was impressive how Iniesta finished his career without the Ballon d'Or. With everything he won, it is difficult for me to understand!

Serie A has improved a lot in the last couple of years. The football played here is very modern now.

In football, you get criticised if you are sent off. It's my style of play, and nobody can make me change that. Even if I get another red card, then that happens. You become cleverer, maybe look more, and since my red card, I think things have improved.

You can learn a lot in the Europa League or from playing different teams from across Europe, and European football has improved me as a player.

At Valencia I was playing a high level every week and I improved a lot. I was under pressure in a good way, I played in a team which played very good football with an explosive counter attack.

The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.

We have to improve at club level - and at the international level, there is a lot of room for improvement.

They're human beings before they're footballers and it's important to understand how can I help them. What do they need? How can they feel part of this? How can they feel they're improving in their career, because my job is to help them get better, play better football, earn a better contract, whatever it is.

I am sure my own game is improving by playing in Serie A.

Sometimes maybe it just doesn't go right in the game, but that's football, and I think I'm definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.

Ancelotti has allowed us to enjoy the games and also to improvise.

Dani Alves is a special player, in my opinion.

If I ever leave Fiorentina, I would very much like to go to Manchester United because out of the three best teams in Europe - United, Lazio, and Barcelona - Manchester, in my opinion, is the best.

My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.

In my opinion, Havertz is even better than Ballack in terms of his playing ability.

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

That is football. In the end, all clubs spend money.

At Manchester, everyone plays for himself and does what he wants but it works out in the end.

Cristiano is not obsessed with scoring goals. Goals always come in the end when he works hard and the team works hard, too.

Being a Barca fan means certain God-given inalienable rights: It means that, no matter what its record, Barca is, and will always be, the greatest team on earth. This is a fact. And it means that your love for Barca is like no other love in the world. It's the kind of love that clouds your memory and gives you hope.

I've had to work and scratch and claw for every inch of what I've gotten as a football player.