Javier Zanetti Quotes

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

We footballers don't address one another as 'My dear.'

I don't have a problem with anybody. Until I get on the court.

We don't ever show up trying to throw games.

One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

I play football. It's about winning games. It's not about who can talk trash the most.

Obviously, it is good to have competitiveness in the team and that urge to want to beat the driver next to you, but at the same time, I think we are gonna respect each other.

My philosophy is to respect the opposition off the field and play it as tough as possible on it.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can't remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Whether you are fighting for the title or fighting at the bottom, you are always professional and want to win every game.

I have multiple friends on other teams who after a game, they'll tell me the game plan... part of the game plan is to stop you. It's a respect factor.

When we play a team I know we're going to blow out or anything like that, I'm not as motivated.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

We're here for one reason, and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is.

I never wanted anybody to think that I deliberately hurt opponents. The vast majority of players are the same.

If you lose a game in Brazil, you cannot walk about among the fans.

Even if you win, or you lose, you have to respect your opponent.

I like scoring against everybody.

I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path.