Luis Enrique Quotes

Sometimes in the Champions League, I don't think it's always the best team that wins it. It depends on how you play on a certain day.

When you are a big team, and you play away against a second or third-tier team, there is always pressure.

The thing about Champions League football is it can turn on an instant. You can have a very good, solid team over the course of the season, but the Champions League is more like the World Cup, where your fate can be decided in a second and you need a bit of luck too.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the first team. It's not easy.

At Arsenal and the so-called big clubs, you always know that there will be a bigger spotlight on every single position.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

It is always difficult, if you win against City, everybody expects it to be an easy win, but it will not be easy. It will be very difficult.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'

You will get criticised, you will get praised - that's the way football goes. I've learned over a few years now that it can change within an instant.

I've dealt with expectations my whole life and have been blessed to be able to play at a high level, whether it's football or baseball.

When you play for a team like Chelsea you will have to fight for your place.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

People presume that just because I am Shahid Kapoor's brother, I must have studied in an international school, gone out on foreign vacations, and had a certain kind of upbringing. But the truth is quite different, and I am very proud of where I come from.