Zinedine Zidane Quotes

Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

I can honestly tell you that playing against Messi is very difficult.

We know Messi is the best in the world. That means he is unpredictable, so you have to keep focused.

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.

It's not like I am going to Barcelona as a tourist who is there to watch Messi in action. I am not going to say that I will bench Busquets or anything! But I think I have a good chance of getting plenty of minutes.

I always played attacking football.

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

I always knew I was going to play with Messi one day.

How do you mark Ronaldo? You try not to leave him alone and don't let him shoot on his right foot. As for Messi... you just make the sign of the cross!

I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.

Diego Simeone, the coach from Atletico Madrid, was a very strong player as a midfielder.

Messi is the best in the world, even when he is defending.

I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.

The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.

When you play against a Spanish team, especially Madrid, it is quite an open game.

My dad's an old football player.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

I like attacking football, but that's not the only thing the game's about.

The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two, or three players and is happy to give an assist to a team-mate - it makes him more dangerous and more difficult to stop than ever before.