Michael Ballack Quotes

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

I was very young when I left Brazil.

I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

I can't leave England.

Leaving South Africa was very difficult.

When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back.

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

I suppose people lost interest in me when I left Liverpool; but it wasn't me who left, it was other people who left me. If people had continued to follow me, they would have seen my two good seasons in Turkey which caught the attention of Besiktas and Galatasaray.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.

I really wanted to get out of England.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely ...

Those who like Italy better than America should return to Italy. [Few did. Many enlisted.]

Where have the Americans gone?

As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another.