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More Quotes by Xabi Alonso
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 left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
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.
I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely
I have been progressing throughout my career, which is a very good sign.
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.
I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.
Leaving Liverpool was the toughest decision I had to make in football because I was in an exemplary club, a proper football club, with a lovely and sharing stadium that meant a lot of things to me. The fans are the best in the world, no doubt about that, and I was comfortable there.
I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.
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.