Xavi Quotes

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

Sometimes you just square the ball, and somebody else shoots, but some assists are so nice, and the passing is very important. We creators have a thing with the attackers.

My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.

There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

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.

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.

I want to play the football I feel.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

I think I'm a good enough ball handler to bring the ball up the basketball court, and my teammates do a great job of getting open.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

I'm absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It's the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

I've been watching a whole heap of video footage of different players on different teams and how different players get the football. But the best way I learn is getting out there and playing.

It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.

I like football, and I like good players.

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