Michael Ballack Quotes

I left home at 21 to go and play for Munich and was immediately able to perform at a high standard. It was totally surreal, and I had no idea where it might lead.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

If I stay in Roma, I can still improve. If I go back to Arsenal, I will treasure my experience in Italy.

It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by. To come away to a new challenge, a new level, knowing that I was going to have to step up massively - not having those people around me was a test.

I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it.

At Barcelona from the early days I was seen as a goalscorer. Going somewhere else for a while has shown me I can enjoy games from a perspective other than just scoring goals.

For a kid that just played for Oviedo, to then going to play for a team like Real Madrid, it felt fantastic. But being taken out of my family home and moving away alone, into the residence Madrid have for young players, it was a bit difficult. But as time passed, I got used to it.

Going to Watford at such a young age and leaving everyone behind and being around new people was very different for me. Adapting was a challenge. I was staying in a boarding school and in a different culture that I wasn't used to. It was very hard to adapt, build confidence and change my attitude.

I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.

When I came to Mumbai, it was very difficult. I enjoyed every bit of it, but it was so new, and life was very different - new people and new home.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

I'm going to be on a mission. I've handled my personal vendettas and handled them well. Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it - ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

When you come to a new team, new world, new people, you feel a little bit uncomfortable. But my teammates, they are tremendous guys.

The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.