You have to know your role and accept it, because that's what is best for the team. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I've said a few times the Bundesliga is closer to the Premier League than the Liga. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I have been lucky enough to be at great clubs, from my hometown club to Liverpool to Real Madrid to Bayern Munich. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I have played at Liverpool, a special club, grown as a player and won titles. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I wanted to end my career still at the highest level, and Bayern is the highest level. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Being a manager is so different to being a footballer. It's a very difficult job, but, of course, it's very exciting as… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Each time I watch a Liverpool game, I feel something special, especially whenever it's at Anfield, because it brings back great memories. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
The midfielders are important: they have to offer themselves to receive the ball and make good use of it, take choices, try… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
If I decide somewhere along the way to take my chances as a manager, my link, my commitment, my passion with Liverpool… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
You need to have the same ideas to work as a team, to have a good team spirit. And you don't get… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I don't want to just play well; I want the players around me to play better, and that's when I feel that… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I stay in contact with friends I have in Liverpool. It's not a normal club; it's so special and very important to… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I don't think I will stop learning about football. There are certain parts we will never understand, like what happens in the… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Bayern is a big club and a big brand, but on a daily basis, it's a family club. You get to know… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Leaving Liverpool was the toughest decision I had to make in football because I was in an exemplary club, a proper football… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Real Madrid is a big club, and like at any other big club, too, there are always critics after defeats. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
To be fighting at European level, you need players who know how to play in the big games. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
Of course Zidane has surprised me as a coach. I didn't know how he would do. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
I have learned from all of my coaches, and I am sure I will learn a lot with Guardiola. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
To be fighting at European level, you need players who know how to play in the big games. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
How many times have you seen me run into the box with the ball, dribbling past players? It's uncommon because it's not my game;… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
If I decide somewhere along the way to take my chances as a manager, my link, my commitment, my passion with Liverpool is there. — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
That is probably the biggest issue about the English game. You need to be a great player and great at striking the ball, of… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
