Granit Xhaka Quotes

The main reason to come to England and Chelsea was to play with a great team. Money and the chance to live in a city like London are additional factors.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

My social life's moved up a few notches since moving back to London from Surrey because I'm near friends and family again and I'm really enjoying it.

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

I am very happy with my move to Bayern. As a kid I always dreamed of such a moment.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

I am very happy in London and to be at Chelsea.

When I was in L.A., I thought I would never leave.

As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism. It's part of what drew me here after university.

I really tried to avoid living in L.A. for as long as I can.

I moved when I was about 12 years old: different school, had to live in digs. It was harder for my family, but eventually, they understood it was a path that Manchester United had made for me. I had to stick to it, and it has paid off.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

I am happy at Everton, and I can't do anything else other than concentrate on my own game.