Barcelona Quotes · Page 6

I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning…

— Ronald Koeman

Now it's up to me to prove that I can play for Barcelona and help the team to stay at the top.

— Thiago Alcantara

Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.

— Philipp Lahm

To play for Barcelona will help me show my best qualities to the world.

— Marc-Andre ter Stegen

I miss everything that surrounds the club. I miss my colleagues, my friends and everyone who cares for Barcelona.

— Bojan Krkic

It's not easy playing against Barcelona in the Champions League. They are a club with a lot of history.

— Filipe Luis

I'll never play in Barcelona, because in Spain I am a Real Madrid supporter.

— Casemiro

It's true, in the past there was interest from Barcelona, but I'd have been a ball boy there.

— Sebastian Giovinco

There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it…

— Xavi

“Barcelona didn't try to live at the same pace as other global cities. It moved to the ticking of its own clock…

— Sarah Dayan

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Barcelona focus a lot on what Barcelona does and not on what others are going to do. It creates a different way…

— Dani Alves

It is obvious that it is nice for any player to know he is wanted by a team like Barcelona, with Guardiola…

— David Trezeguet

The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona…

— Luis Garcia

I'm always bragging, always laughing with my Spain team-mates at Barcelona, saying I'll take 30 per cent possession and two goals -…

— Toni Duggan

I think all the best German players stay in the Bundesliga for a while and then they go to the Premier League…

— Owen Hargreaves

“With a pair of scissors in my pocket, a bottle of rum in my hand, and Martina, we walked towards Plaza Trippy…

— Tomas Adam Nyapi

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or…

— Peter Higgs

When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine…

— William Gibson

“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome…

— Kamand Kojouri

I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you…

— Xavi

Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it.…

— Alex Ferguson

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would…

— Dick Vitale

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,…

— Roman Payne

When I arrived at Barcelona and saw Messi's face, and later Luis Suarez, I felt like it was a videogame.

— Neymar

Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.

— Bojan Krkic

I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

— Daniel Bruhl

It's flattering to be linked to Barcelona: it means you're playing well.

— Cesar Azpilicueta

I was really close to joining Barcelona, but in the end, it wasn't to be.

— Angel Di Maria

Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world... so far, nothing has come to me, because if anything comes, it…

— Philippe Coutinho

I don't know how many Michelin stars Barcelona has, but you don't have to spend big money to eat great.

— Marc Gasol

Id rather play Barcelona and out-possess them and out-score them than not.

— Angelos Postecoglou

I left Barcelona because I was brave. Neymar arrived and I played less. These things happen in football.

— Pedro

What I have learnt from my time at Barcelona is the invisible work that goes on off the pitch. It's about the…

— Adama Traore

I have the advantage of having worked with Messi and Mascherano at Barcelona.

— Gerardo Martino

The more better players we have at Barcelona, the better it is for the team and coach.

— Sergio Busquets

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best…

— Gerard Deulofeu

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

— Mauro Icardi

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

— George Hamilton

If you ask me if I would like to see Isco in Barcelona, I would say yes.

— Rivaldo