“I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you ha...” — Xabi Alonso Quote

I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.

I don't want to just play well; I want the players around me to play better, and that's when I feel that I have done my job.

Matches in England are special.

I have played at Liverpool, a special club, grown as a player and won titles.

When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise.

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.

Our strengths or maybe our characteristic as a developer firm software used to maybe be known as a studio that put out unexpected, almost, like, quirky, very unique titles. Not that we've lost that charm in recent years, but that's something that I really, really liked about our studio.