Quotes by Xavi - Page 1

Iniesta is easily Spain's most complete player. He has everything.
Xavi / Footballer
Iniesta
Player
Spain
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There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Talent
Two
Physical
Types
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I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.
Xavi / Footballer
Faster
Survived
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I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barça - and for everyone in football.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Play
Special
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To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.
Xavi / Footballer
Role Models
Roles
Years
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I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Paper
Papers
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If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Player
Thinking
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In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES
Xavi / Footballer
Lasts
Midfielders
Years
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I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.
Xavi / Footballer
England
Partnership
Team
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In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.
Xavi / Footballer
Class
Player
Understanding
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Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.
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Dream
Atmosphere
Memories
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I would loved to have played with Scholes. He plays the game the way it should be played and at his peak he was the best midfield player in the world.
Xavi / Footballer
Games
Player
Way
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Greater
Lasting
Legacy
Winning
Things
Really
More
Win
Well
Result
Something
Than
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It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.
Xavi / Footballer
Barcelona
Difficult
I Am Will Know
Although
Career
Finish
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Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Play
Team
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Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.
Xavi / Footballer
Barcelona
Play
Regret
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
Xavi / Footballer
Arsenal
Barcelona
Birth Place
Birthplace
England
Fans
Football
Heart
Heart And Soul
Liverpool
Champions
Won
Leagues
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Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
Xavi / Footballer
Community
Country
Football
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I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.
Xavi / Footballer
Football
Games
League
Premier League
Relax
Premier
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The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
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Games
Player
Views
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
Xavi / Footballer
Movie
Vacation
Famous
Nobody Cares
Soccer
Spain
Stars
Summer
Nobody
Cares
Music Famous World
Popular
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Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.
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Barcelona
Careers
Imagine
Player
Soccer
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
La
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In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left it would have been to England.
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Cheating
Games
Player
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In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
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Cheating
England
Noble
Footballers
Better Player
Loves
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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Space
Defence
Minutes
Opposition
Thinking
Two
Looking
Ball
Between
Pitch
Entire
Holding
Spend
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
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Football
Possession
Pressure
Attack
Ball
Combine
Least
Pass
Point
Teams
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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Space
Barcelona
Defenders
Difficult
Six
Open
Defend
Open Space
Teams
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Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.
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Past
Player
Team
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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Criticism
Football
No Regrets
Regret
Spain
Thinking
Respect Great Football
Regrets
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I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open up the pitch...The one who has the ball, is the master of the game...Thats the school of Joan Vilà, of Albert Benaiges, of Johan Cruijff, of Pep Guardiola
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Games
Moving
School
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The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.
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Atmosphere
Feelings
Real
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I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
Xavi / Footballer
Attacking
Barcelona
Fans
Moving
National Team
Soccer
Team
Come
Lot
Does
Back
Been
Defender
Midfield
National
See
Spanish
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I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
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Beautiful
Soccer
Team
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In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes. I have spoken with Xabi Alonso about this many times. Scholes is a spectacular player who has everything. He can play the final pass, he can score, he is strong, he never gets knocked off the ball and he doesn’t give possession away. If he had been Spanish then maybe he would have been valued more.
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Player
Strong
Years
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I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you win playing like this it's twice as satisfying. I've always played attacking football: my footballing ideals are very clear and well defined. I've grown up at Barcelona with that style and that's the one I like. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.
Xavi / Footballer
Eye
Football
Winning
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