Football Quotes by Rodri

I'm a player who tries to understand football.

— Rodri

Simeone and Guardiola are two opposites.

— Rodri

It's not enough to play good, you need to punish.

— Rodri

I had a Zidane shirt when I was a kid.

— Rodri

I think to win you have to have lost before.

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I idolised Zinedine Zidane.

— Rodri

I always try to learn from Busquets.

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Always when you have a big defeat you learn.

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Joining City in 2019 is the best decision I have made in my career.

— Rodri

I watched Busquets especially closely. He, and others, lay down a model of playing I knew I had to follow.

— Rodri

The way you play doesn't matter, it matters if you win or not.

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You move on and in defeat you learn more than in victories.

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In the end, playing three or four years in the same team allows you to advance in different facets.

— Rodri

I try to help my teammates all the time but I try to grow every game, try to learn about the past.

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Simeone is consistency and perseverance. Guardiola is innovative, growing day by day.

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The only thing I can say is that I will give everything to my team.

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You have to respect whoever the manager calls. The fact that some play here and some play there just doesn't matter. This…

— Rodri

If you look, Fernandinho played almost an entire season at centre-back. Fabinho played there when there were injuries, and they're midfielders. I…

— Rodri

I watched the big teams in the Premier League, Manchester City the most. I like the way they play. I think they're…

— Rodri

As for the way I saw football, I had always enjoyed watching the game and it's true: I always found it quite…

— Rodri

I loved to score goals but then I realised how beautiful it was to move the team, be the leader of the…

— Rodri

I like to look to players like me and I always consider that Fernandinho has been in the top five or six…

— Rodri

To have a winning mentality in the Champions League you have to be there in the semi-finals, touch the finals.

— Rodri

Everyone develops their own characteristics, but the best players are the most intelligent. The ones that think quickly and clearly have an…

— Rodri

I'm not used to tackles. I don't know, it's on your own the way you learn. I steal the ball in another…

— Rodri

It helps me the most in the fact that I'm not focused in my head on football alone. I have more things…

— Rodri

Gavi is someone who is loved greatly, he has a very strong personality. Sometimes he gets criticised for it, but personally I…

— Rodri

In 2008 I was watching Marcos Senna and Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Santi Cazorla: they were the ones that imposed that…

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It's one of the best things I have is the way I understand football and when I watch a game, I don't…

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If you keep winning, you are a good coach.

— Rodri

You can't stop competing and that's what Guardiola instils in us every day, that every game is a final.

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It's our goal of course, winning trophies in every competition we play in.

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On the pitch, sometimes you have to change the mentality.

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The Premier League level is so high that as soon as you slow down, you lose points.

— Rodri

What we have to put on the pitch is the effort, running. Then the football comes along.

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When I finish my career as a player I'd like to stay in contact with the sports world.

— Rodri

Football is getting more equal, you have to run a lot in my position. I waste all my energy in matches.

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The better prepared you are the better you are going to compete.

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The best players are those who, at critical moments, have a cool head.

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You don't win only playing good, you need more things and that's why teams are changing their philosophy.

— Rodri