Marko Arnautovic Quotes

When I came to England, everyone told me that I'd get the hits, so I was prepared for that.

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.

Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here - family, friends - but I'm very happy in England, with the way of life we have and with English football.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

It is well known that German intellectuals are reluctant to agree with French intellectuals and the French are reluctant to agree with the German.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

Germany is made to travel in, Italy to sojourn in,… and France to live in, [but England was made] to think in.

A singular fact is, that anybody, white or colored, from America is welcomed out here in Africa, either on the coast or back in the interior. While Englishmen, French and Germans are mostly hated. The kings hate them, especially about robbing them of their lands. The French are hated as the devil. Americans are looked upon as their guardians…and the friends of blacks, … I do not understand it yet. France is more prejudiced and more intolerant in her claimed possessions than England and seems far less compromising.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

The German people mistrust the Anglo-Saxons in the belief that they begrudge Germany her legitimate economic expansion…. Between Germany and France the gulf of mistrust is much deeper… the historical controversy between the two neighbors appears in French eyes as merely the result of permanent Teutonic aggression throughout the centuries.

… the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples, instead of the most westerly of easterns, that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

I don't like change that much.

I got tired of Los Angeles, and I got tired of the game a bit. I wanted to have a different life experience, so I moved to England, and I lived in England for eight years, and I worked there.

There's always a transition if you go to a new territory or a new company or a new country or wherever because there's different styles and different crowds that you perform in front of. Of course, it always takes a little bit of time to find your groove.

London is really nice, and I'm really happy here, but, of course, I've moved here to play football and not just to be in the city.

The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager.

I've been told by many people that a lot of overseas players come into the Premier League, and they take time to integrate, depending on the circumstances.

Sometimes, there isn't respect for our ways, but you can't change people.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.

I guess I'd rather be comfortable and play well because I'm comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't enjoy myself.

Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.

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

The Manchester move was OK. I was still in England and I knew I could go back home.