Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Bojan Krkic

For me, the wind is the worst weather you can have to play football.

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the first team. It's not easy.

My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'

Italian football is just how I imagined it to be - far more tactical than the Spanish game which is based on technique.

When you are 17, you don't know what pressure is, because you play with the best team in big stadiums with big players. But when I look back now, it's difficult for a 17-year-old to get by and deal with the whole situation.

I chose Milan for many reasons. It is a great club and the team is made of an historic group of players.

I don't think it's fair comparing Barcelona's style with that of Roma.

In Italy, one game you win and score, you cannot go in the street because the people are so enthusiastic, and when you lose they go crazy. After the game they wait for you.

In Holland, I have got the buzz back playing as a centre-forward, which is where I perform best. Ajax always appealed to me from when I was young and they gave me a chance to play in the Champions League too.

My Italian adventure was positive because I improved a lot in tactical terms, most of all defensively, which is something I hadn't worked on quite so much.

It is very uncomfortable to be dizzy 24 hours a day.

I feel really proud of my career - more here in England than in Spain. There are different mentalities. Here the people respect you.

Pochettino is a manager with a lot of character, so Tottenham applies it in the field. That's why they have eliminated big clubs like Manchester City or Ajax.

When you play, of course you want to win, but the most important thing about pre-season is improving your fitness.

I write a diary every day.

Christmas time is for me one of the most special times of the year.

I need match practice of course, I need minutes in my legs to reach my best form.

At Barcelona from the early days I was seen as a goalscorer. Going somewhere else for a while has shown me I can enjoy games from a perspective other than just scoring goals.

Mark Hughes convinced me to come to Stoke, he has helped me and showed his trust in me from the beginning.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

I watch box sets. I worked my way through 'Breaking Bad' and 'Prison Break.'

It is my goal to stay with Barcelona for a long time and be successful here.

And the most important thing isn't the trophies, it's the experiences, what you lived, what's here in your heart, what you know, what you live. No one can ever steal that from you.

I love football, it's my life.

Anxiety affects everyone differently. I spoke to someone who felt like their heart was beating 1,000 times a minute. With me, it was a dizziness, feeling sick, constant, 24 hours a day.

I can't put this down. I'm reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.

I watch Denzel Washington films with subtitles.

Frank Rijkaard put me in the first team when I was 17 and gave me every week the chance to play with the first team and start my way in football. I was so young and my dreams came true so quickly thanks to Rijkaard.

Some people like Messi didn't have to learn a lot as his is a natural style. But of course you can improve your technique, your football intelligence, your everything.

One of the factors that has helped me to reach 100 games was not to lose hope.

If you become their property it is much clearer for you, for the club, for everything. It was a great experience to play in three different teams, different leagues, different experiences, but if I wanted to improve I had to break this cycle and make my own way. That's why I signed this contract to come to Stoke.

I learned and played with the very best like Messi, Xavi and Iniesta.

That's the good part of an injury, it strengthens you in many ways.

The more you play, you get a better rhythm and play better.

In Spain, people do not respect the players, the same in Italy. In England, it looks like a different world - the people admire the player, but also respect the player.

Stoke City gave me the opportunity to play in the most competitive league in the world, and I have only words of gratitude for their trust and for the way they have treated me.

In my head, I am always saying that I should play every minute of every game because it is my job and it is what I love to do.

I was called up for Spain against France, my international debut, and it was said that I had gastroenteritis when I had an anxiety attack. But no one wants to talk about that. Football's not interested.

Mark Hughes really believes in me, he makes me feel as though I'm a great footballer.

For me, what makes Liverpool special is that they are a team that works very well on the lines, very compact, in which everyone attacks and defends.

It is clear that Barca are the best team in the world, and can call on the best players in the world, but we will only achieve something if we are convinced we can do it. We must only think of giving our all.

This is football, things can change very fast. Let's be clear about it though: I will not be used as change to facilitate someone else's transfer.

It is an honour for me that Mainz gives me the opportunity to prove myself in another top European league.

It's a quiet life. Normally it's training, house, gym.

The group of players that you see in the Barca dressing room is unique. There are a lot of homegrown players and others who really care for Barcelona a lot as well.

Those of us who have feeling, who are sensitive, who can be affected, need a good shield. Footballers are very young and they're exposed. Even at under-15s, players have Twitter and I'm sure they're already getting insults... it's ugly, it sullies society and football.

Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.

I need to feel like I am important part of the team, if I get that the goals will come.

The relationship with Pep wasn't a very good one.

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

Nobody told me that I would be just a player to be exchanged. Nobody likes to be a part of that situation, especially not me.

For its part, one of the keys of Tottenham is that it has players who know each other very well for two or three years. They have not made changes and are managed by the same coach, Mauricio Pochettino. Therefore, they perfectly apply the idea of team and style of play.

I like to play, it doesn't matter where.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.

It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.

In the end, I know my qualities and I know I'm not Messi. I'm Bojan.

As a fan, Guardiola is the best coach in the world, but personal things that have happened to me were hurtful.

I played many matches and got experience very early. Did I lose some of my childhood? This is one of the things that I am more sensitive about and that touched me the most, because I am a family person. There are many moments that I haven't had the chance to enjoy with my family and also with my friends.

I love watching Santi Cazorla.