Jose Mourinho Quotes

Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

Mohamed Salah is the best footballer in the world and an overall perfect person.

At Liverpool, I studied Steven Gerrard all the time and improved my game that way. Here, I absorb all I can from Iniesta and Messi.

Those years in Denmark changed my game and how I played football.

It gives me a lot of confidence to play with my feet, and I have to be focused for 90 minutes.

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.

I watched Felipe Luis a lot of times. I played against him in Spain. I know he is a very good player.

I play football and I want to be considered as a footballer.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

Poldi can do much more than just play on the wing.

I want to score goals and make goals.

I have grown up as a player watching many champions like Pirlo and Xavi. I have watched them and tried to learn from how they do things.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

It is very important for me to be able to play and develop with players like Messi, Dybala, Di Maria, and Banega.

I started playing when I was 16. Year in, year out, people expect 20 goals from me.

Messi simply cannot be stopped by yourself. Ronaldo is easier because he is more about athletic prowess.

I make plays in the passing game, blocking, doing everything.

I always wanted to play with both feet, so today I'm happy I trained it so often.

I want to see Pogba being a Manchester United player and being as good as everything else he does in life. He's absolutely brilliant on social media, and he's projecting himself to be this incredibly modern player.

Salah's one of the best players in the world. He's fast, but I've played against other fast players such as Mbappe.

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

Messi is Messi and Messi is Barcelona.