Top 25 Thiago Alcantara Quotes

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you’re sitting in pole position to win.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

I love watching English football. It’s the league I most enjoy.

I can play in any position except goalkeeper.

For any dad who has two footballing sons, to have them in a semi-final and know that at least one will reach the final is the best present in the world.

You always want to play with the best.

Now it’s up to me to prove that I can play for Barcelona and help the team to stay at the top.

Football’s always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

Leo is the best player in the world; that is very clear.

I just want to be on top of my game, because that benefits my team-mates as well.

My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me – when I move, when I do everything – are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I’m more from Spain. That’s how I grew up.

As long as you are happy and passionate about what you are doing, you will always develop your skills to be the best you can be.

One of my dreams is to lift a title with Spain. I lifted titles in the past that did not feel like mine.

It’s just a coincidence that I’ve scored two headers. I’m not a specialist scoring headed goals.

The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you’ve seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture.

All of you know how Pep Guardiola is as a manager… he is the best coach in history.

We’re very happy in Munich. I have my kids here. Everything is perfect.

In Spain, everything’s more tactical, more technical, with more possession. In Germany, it’s more physical; it’s about the runs you make, the counterattacks, and the German mentality is unique: whatever the score, you go to the 90th minute.

I don’t regret the move to Bayern. It’s a very good moment for me, also because my team-mates trust in me.

I want to be a footballer. I don’t want to do anything else.

It’s the perfect club for any footballer to develop and to grow, because as everybody knows, La Masia can give you stability; they take care of you when you leave home.

We have this beautiful tradition at Bayern that we all get together with our families after the game in a room and celebrate the wins. That is why it hurts a lot more when we lose.

I arrived in Spain at three years old when my dad played in Valencia. Then we spent a lot of time in Vigo in the northwest part of Spain.

You can play football in Bayern, in Barcelona, in Manchester, in London, wherever. In the end, it’s football, and you want to play with the best.

Barcelona, Real Madrid, City – there are many teams you’d want to play against.