Playing Abroad Quotes

I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

I like the style of football in England and the style of Arsenal, and I'm very happy to play in the Premier League.

When you go to Australia you are always asked whether you can perform in hostile environments against high pace and every Australian side I have played against has had guys bowling over 90mph.

I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.

I think it is always a challenge when you go and play abroad. You are competing against the home team, and they know the conditions well. Their fast bowlers always know which length to bowl and also the areas in which they need to bowl.

I absolutely love playing in Europe. The Premier League is fantastic, but once you get a taste for it, it's the place to be.

In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League.

For those of us playing in a foreign league, it's always nice to spend a few days with family and friends who we don't get to see every day.

The conditions are always slightly better back in the U.K. There's a lot of distractions when you play away in China and it's very easy to get on a bad run out there, with various things going on when you play.

In my past, I've been blessed to be able to play in front of the Leeds fans and Anderlecht fans.

One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.

I have definitely learned a lot from playing in different countries and in different styles of football, and I feel very happy now with Al Ain.

I have so far enjoyed my preparation with red ball cricket. The Duke ball swings a lot when you're here in England, and initially, when I started playing here with India A, I realized that the swing will come a lot into play in these conditions.

When I was 18, I moved across the ocean just for the opportunity to play for a club that played against Barcelona. So to have the honour of playing for Barca? It was incredible.

I had good times with Juventus but when you are offered the chance to come to Real at almost 33 years of age it is a great opportunity.

Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time it would irk me, coming back to Scotland and people still wanting me to lose.

I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.

Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much.

I felt the same when I went to Manchester United, to Madrid, to Leverkusen, and now at West Ham. The only pressure I have is my pressure. That's it.

If I couldn't get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.

To play for Barcelona will help me show my best qualities to the world.

I've said in earlier interviews maybe I should have stayed one or two more years in Holland.

I've said in the past that I'd like to play in Spain one day, because it is a league that is good technically and where you get a lot of touches on the ball, which is my style.

When I was younger, I never thought I'd be brave enough to go and play abroad.

I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.