Barcelona Quotes - Page 3

• I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Team, Believe

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• Red Bull is committed to providing not only quality domestic soccer, but also quality international soccer. You can't get much better than Barcelona. Our entire organization is excited about the opportunity to play one of the premier teams in the world.

  Alexi Lalas

  Soccer, Team, Opportunity

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• Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

  Frank Lampard

  Team, Unfinished Business, World

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• Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!

  Frank Lampard

  Games, Annoyed, Tricks

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• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

  Simon Barnes

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.

  Billy Mills

  Running, Distance, Men

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• The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Kids

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• So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head. "He hasn't returned my calls since Barcelona." He leaned closer and whispered, "I think he might still be mad at me." "Yeah, well, that makes two of us." "Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.

  Ally Carter

  Father, Thinking, Two

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• It doesnt change much for me really and my motivation remains the same - to create a beautiful future with Barcelona, winning many titles.

  Ronaldinho

  Beautiful, Motivation, Winning

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• I am not happy to play for Barcelona, but Barcelona should be happy that I play there.

  Romario

  Play, Not Happy, Should

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• For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.

  Penelope Cruz

  Opportunity, Careers, Directors

  "Penelope Cruz Interview BROKEN EMBRACES". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Past, Sick, Olympics

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; its like the end of the world.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Rain, Years, Sea

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• I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

  Colm Toibin

  War, Mountain, Pillars

  "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

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• Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy

  Stefon Harris

  Energy, Great Food

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• “One Minus One’”and “Barcelona, 1975” are more or less autobiographical.

  Colm Toibin

  Minus

  "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.

  Mario Andretti

  Beach, Real, Character

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• FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia

  Carles Puyol

  Team, National Team

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• Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

  Xavi

  Soccer, Player, Careers

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• I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.

  Lionel

  Home, People, Clubs

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• Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Two, Legends, Dignity

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• I think Pep Guardiola is a top manager. There's no doubt about that. Not only did he manage Messi and Iniesta, but he made them better and took them to levels they'd never been before. The best team I've ever seen is Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. I'm sure his management got something to do with that.

  Jamie Carragher

  Team, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.

  Xavi

  Regret, Play, Manchester United

  "Xavi: My Only Regret Is Not Playing With Scholes". Interview with David Lynch, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. August 06, 2014.

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• It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

  Boris Becker

  Team, Winning, Player

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