Top 55 Gerard Pique Quotes

You’re not always at your best.

Every year, Messi seems to reach his limit, but he always ends up exceeding that. He is the best.

I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.

Real Madrid are such an immense team – a big, big club.

Anything can happen in the Clasico.

When you’re in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

I am trying to live as natural as I can with my son.

There comes a point when you realise that you’re storming forward, that you can beat anyone, and this is what has ended up winning us the league and putting us in two finals.

To have the chance to win the treble is very good and rare.

I think the Catalonian people really identify with Barcelona – the fans are really proud of the team and the club.

Football is a very passionate world.

I always said that Messi has some talent that no one has. I mean, he has the ball and his speed controlling the ball. The ball doesn’t go two metres far from his foot; it’s always there. It’s impossible to catch him. This talent I didn’t see from anyone.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

I’m not cut out to be a coach.

It’s a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.

I want to be president of Barcelona – that’s my dream.

I moved to Manchester United when I was a 17-year-old kid. Nemanja Vidic was five years older than me and Rio Ferdinand nearly nine years, and at the time, they were the best central defenders in the world. They never had a bad game.

I studied economics with some teachers from ESADE. It’s a really good school here in Spain. They helped me to understand a little about numbers, stats, economics, etc.

I don’t want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

With Messi, we’re talking about the best player in the world. It doesn’t matter if he’s a little bit injured: he can still change everything.

Shakira has a very great career, knows a lot, and has taught me a lot. She came into my life to transform it, and that makes me very happy.

We want the best players to be at Barcelona.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

Sometimes you’re more involved in controversy, and at other times, you’re disconnected.

It’s true that sometimes we have paparazzi or some kind of photographers following us, but you have to live normal. I mean, if you try to not go to the supermarket or not go to the cinema, you won’t live properly, and you won’t enjoy living. We are trying to be as normal as we can.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

The majority of Espanyol supporters are polite, but there are always rowdy minorities.

For me, coming to the national team is like coming home.

I was 17 years old and missed many things about Barcelona, particularly the food. Fortunately, Sir Alex Ferguson realised my situation and helped me to grow. For me, the gaffer was like a second father.

As a teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo is a perfect ’10.’ I admire him professionally because he sets an example to follow both as a player and as a person.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

With VAR, the refereeing errors will be reduced, and therefore, we’ll all be on equal terms. It will take a lot of the responsibility from the referees on vital decisions, like penalties and goals, and they will make far fewer mistakes.

I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life.

Politics is always a difficult thing to talk about because, like football, the views are radical. You think this way; that guy thinks the opposite way. It is, like, nearly a fight, and feelings are very strong.

Completely, in the end, being at a club like FC Barcelona who must win titles, you have to stay motivated, and often times, using your head is more important than using your body.

Arbeloa said he was my friend, but I don’t consider him my friend – maybe someone I know, but not my friend.

In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring.

I’ve been playing very well for a number of years.

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

In England, there are big games but nothing like the Clasico. Manchester United versus Liverpool is a really great match, probably the best over there. But Barcelona-Madrid is different to any other game in the world.

I love ’80s music, but in the dressing room, it tends to be more lively!

I remember, when I arrived in England, a lot of people said that my style of play was not for England.

I’m very proud of all the career I’ve had with the national team.

At Barcelona, we didn’t do gym work until the age of 18. That was really hard.

It changes everything, absolutely everything. The love you feel for your child transforms everything. Now you have someone helpless and tiny that depends on you and only you. You look at him and know that your world is focused on him, on that part of you.

I am very proud of my three years there, of having decided to go to Manchester first – at 17, it was the perfect time for me to leave home because it helped make me as a person.

I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that’s here. It’s Barca or nothing.

I don’t associate this sport with anything except Barcelona.

It’s essential to have equilibrium in your life.

If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don’t think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.

We try to study our rivals so we know where to improve.

I’ve done most of my career with Barca, with the exception of the period I played for Manchester United.

When I can talk about my teammates who help make me a better player, or even the coach who gave me the self-confidence to continue being who I am, these are fundamental people who have had an influence throughout my life and my professional career, and I’m very thankful to them, and they know it.

I am proud to have been part of a Sir Alex Ferguson team.

I am and feel Catalan.