Top 66 Gerard Pique Quotes

Being called up to the national team isn’t a competition of who’s more patriotic.

My routine prior to a big game is the same for any other match. Eat, sleep, chat with teammates during the day, and then, as the match draws near, I listen to my music on the trip to the stadium and zone in.

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.

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.

Everybody knows that footballers have text groups on WhatsApp. I have one just for my friends from home, and I have another just for my Barca team-mates.

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.

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

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

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

I have always said that to play for the national team is a pride and a great motivation.

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.

It’s essential to have equilibrium in your life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My relationship with Ramos started off somewhat ‘cold.’

Besides what he does on the field, one must thank Messi’s human quality.

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 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 think, for Catalonia, FC Barcelona means a lot because it is one of the top clubs in the world, and that means that it’s a way to show what Catalonia is in the world.

Players like Neymar are great for football.

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

Cristiano Ronaldo has not changed since we were both at Manchester United.

I would like to change the refereeing system. The pressure that is put on an official in a match is too large.

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.

Not everything, always, is about your performance. It’s about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not play well. It’s all about the team.

I’m not cut out to be a coach.

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 have not betrayed Barca, and I’m surprised anyone would doubt my commitment to Barcelona, because I’ve been a fan since birth.

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

There won’t be more Messis, and we don’t expect there to be more, as there won’t be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.

I like to stay busy. I have a lot of things on my mind.

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.

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

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.

You’re not always at your best.

I am and feel Catalan.

Experience says it’s not easy to find a center back for Barca.

It seems like when I don’t talk so much, people praise my performances more.

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.

I think that every day, more and more people are conscious of what Barca is, that Barca is a global brand, and you can go anywhere in the world and see a child wearing a Barca shirt, and that means a lot: not just that people like Barca but that they also like the colours and even buy the shirt.

In order to eliminate injustices and to ensure there would be less controversy, I would introduce technology that would make refereeing better.

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

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

Football is a very passionate world.

Being called up to the national team is about going with them, playing the best you possibly can, and trying to win. That’s how I understand it.

The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona is very big.

I consider that, in a democracy, everyone has the right to decide. If people don’t have the right to express what they feel, we would be going back to a bygone era.

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

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.

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

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

I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don’t go well for me.

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

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

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.

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.

Barcelona is my life, and I do not plan to leave.

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

The only problem is that there are a lot of people here in Catalonia who want to separate from Spain and a lot of people who don’t want to. We are talking about 50-50, more or less, and that is why it is difficult.

When you’re playing for a great team like Madrid, with a lot of pressure because you have to win every game, it’s a difficult life.

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

We want the best players to be at Barcelona.

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

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