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As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Soccer
Fighting
Long
I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Memories
Years
GreatYear
I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Forever
Fans
Stills
I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Real
HardWork
Madrid
We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Soccer
Winning
I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Soccer
Impossible
I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Football
Home
Player
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.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Work
Important
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.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Being
Exciting
I have been progressing throughout my career, which is a very good sign.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Progressing
Throughout
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.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Ideas
Spirit
Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Managing
Dreamt
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.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Accept
Playing
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.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Comfortable
Liverpool
I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Quality
Recurso
If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Control
Midfield
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.
― Xabi Alonso
Xabi Alonso
Midfield
Probably