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My family have absolutely no problem about me playing for Real Madrid. They have become Real Madrid fans. Xabi Alonso
Family Me Problem Fans Become Madrid About No Problem Absolutely Real Real Madrid Playing
Matches in England are special. Xabi Alonso
Matches Special England
Football is a lot to do with mental state. Xabi Alonso
State Mental Football Lot
If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win. Xabi Alonso
You Game Win Control More Midfield Chances
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
Work Time Good Day You Month Some Spirit Takes Ideas Get Same Team Team Spirit Even Need
I prefer not to compare teams because it's not fair at all. Xabi Alonso
Fair Because Not Fair Prefer Teams Compare
Cristiano's numbers are amazing, indisputable. Xabi Alonso
Amazing Numbers
When I was a Real Sociedad player, we lost on every occasion we visited Camp Nou. Maybe that is normal for a small team, but with Liverpool and Real Madrid, you expect more. Xabi Alonso
You Lost Every Visited Madrid More Small Occasion Real Normal Camp Real Madrid Expect Maybe Team Liverpool Player
They value different things in every country. In England, it's very physical. You tackle, you shoot. I love watching it. In Spain, it's different. Pass the ball, move, find the space. Xabi Alonso
Love You Space Value Country Every I Love Find Physical Tackle Ball Pass Very Shoot Move Different Spain England Different Things Things Watching
Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is doing well. Xabi Alonso
Knowledge You Game See About He Well Understands Doing Lot Psychology Things Players
I think Kimmich is a bit like Mascherano. They are similar type of players. Xabi Alonso
Think Type I Think Bit Similar Like Players
I am still as slow as I was when I was 20. Xabi Alonso
I Am Slow Am Still
I don't try to do things that might make me look stupid, because the risk is there. Xabi Alonso
Me Try Stupid Risk Look Make Because Might Things
If I have to yell at Cristiano Ronaldo, I yell. Xabi Alonso
Yell
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
Alone Age Else Like La Want Anywhere Anywhere Else Soccer Barcelona Many Ever Play Players Started Playing Career Imagine
You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least. Xavi
Me You Pressure Possession Some Attack Point Football Combine Ball Pass Least Want Teams Play Playing
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that. Xavi
Beautiful Good Fans National Think Defense Back I Think See Attacking Come Because Does Been Lot Up National Team Want Midfield Spanish Soccer Moving Barcelona Team Teams Spectacle Playing Defender
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.' Xavi
Space Looking Holding Thinking Defence Spend Minutes Entire 90 Minutes Between Ball Always Go Opposition Get Pitch Where Here Two
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players. Xavi
Music You World Nobody Cares Stars Cares Summer Some About Nobody Most Go Lot Famous Movie Place Spain Soccer Popular Vacation Players
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy. Xavi
You Win Result Lasting Something More Football Well Greater Legacy Than Really Things
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement. Santiago Calatrava
Achievement Space Country Admired Always Space Shuttle Technological Shuttle
Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important. Santiago Calatrava
Love Music Heart Theatre Architecture I Am Important Think Though All My Heart I Love Most Am Arts Achievements The Most Important Biggest Really Convinced Sculpture Paintings Among Humans
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force. Santiago Calatrava
You Problems Unbelievable Archetypal Obstacle Force Around Represent Across Bridges Bring
Beautiful is difficult. I admire very much the courage of the people who have said, 'Let's do something different. Let's try to see if our environment will be more beautiful and our city will be more beautiful.' Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful Courage People Try Will Difficult Our City Admire See Something More Environment Said Very Different Much Who
Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one of the many beautiful places along the Pacific Coast - but that's all. Once you put the bridge there, you distinguish it from any other place in the world. Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful You World Other Once Francisco Distinguish Bay Would Would-Be Had Put Along Beautiful Places Built Been Any Any Other Place Golden San Pacific Place San Francisco Places Coast Many Bridge Second Gate Imagine
There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and even thousands of times, and then ask people to conform. Santiago Calatrava
Change People Hundreds Thousands About Make Boxes Prototype How Times Reproduce Conform Apartments Ask Then View Used Even Designed
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