Quotes About Transition

In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost.

Don't ask me about Real Madrid - it's just the past.

Cristiano left the bar very high at Real Madrid. You cannot cover the sun with a finger.

If I do not have the option of Barca and I have to go to Real Madrid, I do not close any doors.

Of course I would have liked to have spent my whole life at Real Madrid, but if it cannot be, it cannot be, and you have to move on.

For any footballer who plays for Real Madrid in the modern era, the prospect of leaving the club must feel like a step down no matter where they go - but it does not have to be like that.

I started at Benfica: not as big but one of the biggest clubs in Portugal. I've played for Real Madrid. Then I moved to Manchester United, from a giant to another giant.

I never hid my move to Real Madrid was almost done... my fate changed, and I arrived at Barcelona instead.

I think I felt ready and I really wanted to go to Real Madrid. Some are ready and others aren't. I thought about it carefully and I made the right decision.

I came from playing in a team with my mates to having the chance to play for Real Madrid.

When I left Arsenal, it was because I had done everything there and a big club like Real Madrid wanted me and even David Beckham couldn't turn them down.

I decided to join Bolton because I didn't get lots of minutes at Real Madrid.

All my life I had played in a back-four, at Real Madrid Castilla and at Bolton.

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played with the first team at 18.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I don't see my season with Dortmund negatively. There were some real problems there in the dressing room and they were going through a generation change.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

You have these people that fight wars for their country, and then they come home and they need to attend to their mental health, and they can't get a job. That's a real thing.

Bigg Boss' is kind of a real world and now I've figured out a way to deal with things in the outside world in a better way.

One should approach life with a realisation that nothing is permanent.

Monday is going to be a very difficult day, I believe, because after all these emotions, you realise that probably you hang up your boots and stop doing something I have been doing for the last 17 or 18 years in a professional way.

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful.