Granit Xhaka Quotes

It's hard when you are trying to ingratiate yourself in a completely foreign world. It takes a long time.

Of course, in the beginning it's always difficult. It's a new country, new teammates, so you need to find the relationship with all the players. Obviously it takes time.

It's difficult to adapt to Barcelona.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

You never know for sure whether a player will adapt to a new country until he gets there.

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

Moving to India was challenging being a foreigner. I don't have any family here. I didn't have anyone to guide me. But I never felt for a second that I am not welcome here.

For a 20 year old the gap from Holland to England is massive. That's a fact. Not all players are able to settle in directly from day one. I remember even Van Persie needed two, three years but he became Van Persie.

It takes time to adapt to become an Arsenal player.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I came to attend high school in Massachusetts when I was about 15 years old.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.