Sergio Busquets Quotes

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

When you play in Serie A, it's crucial to keep a clear head and use it for more than just scoring goals.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

I consider all aspects of being a goalkeeper as fundamental in the development of the side as a whole.

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.

Players at the highest level have got high football intelligence, so they can adapt, but at the same time you need a structure and an idea of how you've got to play that system.

The interaction between the goalkeeper and the back four has to be top to compete in the Premier League.

Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.

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.

Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.

Before I receive the ball I already know how that play is developing so I'm able to give rhythm to that play.

I think a lot of managers say that it starts from the front and us as defenders know it helps our job when the front two strikers put that pressure on. If they can do that it makes our job a lot easier.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

In high school, I didn't have to talk. All I had to say is 'left' or 'right' when a screen was coming.

I think that football has changed, it has become more complex. For example, it's faster, you have less free space, and you have to play from such small spaces.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

In football, physical condition is very important, but the head is the most important thing. If you don't have the head, if the mentality is not good, then you are in trouble.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

When I am on the pitch, I play on intuition, but I think a lot about the game as well.

In Twenty20, because of the pace of the game, everyone is constantly involved in the field, you have to work as a team covering each other, there's no time to take your eye off the ball.

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game it is. It's such a mental sport, and it's beautiful. I think definitely the mental aspect, the stats, and the mathematics, that, to me, really blew me away.