118 Quotes by Xabi Alonso

I wanted to end my career still at the highest level, and Bayern is the highest level.

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

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'm incredibly proud and happy to play for FC Bayern and to be a part of this family.

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.

So many times, football is really unfair.

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.

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.

My family have absolutely no problem about me playing for Real Madrid. They have become Real Madrid fans.