Football Rivals Quotes

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

Playing Bayern is never easy.

An Ibra-Messi tandem would have been marvellous, but history decided otherwise.

Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.

Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

Mauricio had a relationship with my granddad and especially my dad, because they played against each other with Instituto and Newell's Old Boys, and my uncle went to school with him when they were children.

Football in Italy at the end of the '80s and beginning of '90s was the best all over the world.

Everyone wants to beat Manchester United, but that's something that we are used to coping with.

Chelsea and Shakhtar are two great teams.

I always wanted to play for AC Milan or Real Madrid. Real Madrid, of course, because when I was young, the players that played there were the top players. I was looking at Real Madrid as the best of the best. And AC Milan, they also had good players when I was young, so I looked at AC Milan the same way as Real Madrid.

Ronaldinho and Robinho are two totally different players.

The Premier League is the best competition in the world, and it's not easy to win a league with great teams like Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, and Arsenal as rivals.

I respect Suarez and Edinson Cavani but I don't fear them.

I've played against a lot of the guys who have got into the England squad - Scott Parker, Jimmy Bullard, people like that - and I feel like I'm holding my own.