Sergio Ramos Quotes

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.

Whenever teams play against Senegal, they want to do really well, and each challenge is always different.

The Champions League is very difficult and you need to keep your concentration at all times.

Villarreal is a difficult place to go, and if you want to win there, you have to play very hard and very well.

I played semi-professionally for a season, and there's an element of performance to being a footballer, stepping onto the pitch: you feel like a gladiator walking into a colosseum.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Football is a passionate game. It excites us.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

When you are in the World Cup, you must focus on seven matches and not losing any.

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

It gives me a lot of confidence to play with my feet, and I have to be focused for 90 minutes.

To me, any time you're playing a Peyton Manning-led football team, there's a challenge - but that's what you dream about growing up as a kid.

It's the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world, but at the same time, my job is to go out and win a game.

Give me great players making great plays under the world's greatest pressure. Give me red white and blue real football.

As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.