Barcelona Quotes

Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

But if there was no Barcelona why would you get out of bed in the morning?

Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

Only unfulfilled love can be romantic

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.

I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same $18 million spent in Barcelona or Rome goes much further there.

“One Minus One’”and “Barcelona, 1975” are more or less autobiographical.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

Whoever Barcelona are playing, you're just interested to watch because Messi's playing.

I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him.

I am not happy to play for Barcelona, but Barcelona should be happy that I play there.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy

The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!