Top 40 Marcos Alonso Quotes

Twenty-four hours a day football was a topic at home. I’ve always loved to play the game.

It is not easy to bring the methods of a new manager to the Premier League.

It was a great two years in Italy, I played a lot of games and gained experience in a different league. So you pick up new stuff, new ways of doing things, on and off the pitch, and I think that has made me a better player, and also more mature mentally.

Luis Enrique has shown at Barcelona that he is a great coach with many qualities and I believe he would be good for any club, but I do not know him a lot on a personal level.

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played with the first team at 18.

I always try to work hard every day, because today you can be at your best, but tomorrow you can be no one.

I’m very happy at Chelsea but I would like to return to Spain one day.

It is easy to work during the week if you are winning.

My father is a massive Barcelona and Atletico fan because he used to play in those teams.

I want to score more goals, I want to give more assists, I want to do more tackles.

I want to keep improving and to work hard to be one of the best.

I’m always looking for more, looking to improve and get better. That’s something inside me, I know I have to work for it.

Italy is a very competitive league, where most of the teams wait for you.

Italians work hard physically and tactically.

I do my best every time I play to put pressure on the manager and try to play more.

The only thing that counts is hard work.

Chelsea are a club that had always attracted me.

From my early years at Bolton I knew that Chelsea were a great club and the truth is that I was right to come here.

You learn more when it’s hard than when it’s easy.

When you are a kid, you aren’t mature and you want to get up and play every week.

I grew up with football in my house.

I am the best to judge when I play well and when I don’t.

Everything I can do to help is good for the team and good for myself.

I really like the Premier League and to have the opportunity to play for Chelsea and win titles.

Other than football, I think I’d pick tennis and golf as my favourite other sports.

It’s good to play in different ways.

To be honest, I don’t care who scores the goals.

Wherever the team needs me to help I will try to do my best, and it’s good to be able to play in more than one positon.

It’s modern football – having the ball, controlling the game, and being well positioned when you lose possession.

In England I feel very well known, not only by Chelsea’s fans, but also by other teams.

After playing my father used to coach, we used to follow him around Spain. We used to travel with him to many cities.

I don’t know why someone would go to Bayern Munich.

I had some other offers from other teams from Italy and Spain but when Chelsea came to get me, I did not think twice.

I don’t really care about the critics or when people talk good about me. It can’t affect you. I’m one to trust myself and to look for more.

Both when you defend and when you attack it needs to be about possession and positioning is vital.

People were used to see me in a 3-5-2 because in Fiorentina that was also where I played. But the hard thing was to adapt to that when I arrived in Italy.

Bolton was another important stage for me. I learned a lot, even if I didn’t fight for any titles. We were not too close, only one semi-final of the FA Cup and then I went to Sunderland for only four or five months and we fought relegation.

I am very happy to be at Fiorentina and I hope to help the team to fight for the first positions.

All you can do is keep working hard, keep training and try to be ready for when the chance comes.

My natural position is left-back in a four-man defence, but you have to be ready to help the team in the way the coach wants.