More Quotes by Xabi Alonso
If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.
I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.
Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.
Being a manager is so different to being a footballer. It's a very difficult job, but, of course, it's very exciting as well.
As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.
I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely
I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.
I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.
If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.
You need to have the same ideas to work as a team, to have a good team spirit. And you don't get there in a day or even a month. It takes some time to get there.
