Javier Zanetti Quotes

Every down is important.

We know football is a difficult game. Sometimes you win and lose.

Villarreal is a difficult place to go, and if you want to win there, you have to play very hard and very well.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

When I'm on the field, I really don't focus on fans. I just focus on my responsibility, which is the guy right across from me.

When you are in the World Cup, you must focus on seven matches and not losing any.

Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.

The main thing is to score a goal in the first half. Then everything will be possible.

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

Sometimes in the Champions League, I don't think it's always the best team that wins it. It depends on how you play on a certain day.

You can only beat the opposition that's in front of you, you can only win the trophies that you go for.

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.

Of course, Hazard can create problems in each moment of the match.

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

When I am on the pitch, I just want to play, I don't care if it is the Nou Camp or not; I just want to play.

The Champions League is very difficult and you need to keep your concentration at all times.

I like that defender-versus-striker battle, that challenge.

The key to win is playing defense.

Scoring eight goals is never easy.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.