Soccer Rivals Quotes

Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are two of the best strikers in the league and the reason I came to the Premier League was to play against people like them.

When I played for Stuttgart, I met Manchester United and Chelsea. With United, I immediately think of the duels with Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and with Chelsea, it was John Terry. Those players are symbols of their clubs and the success they had at that time.

Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.

To play at Chelsea is a dream for any player. It is standing next to some of the best players in the world and competing with the world's best as well.

I have always wanted to play against those types of players such as Ronaldo and Neymar.

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Ronaldo and Messi, in particular, are above everybody else.

To play against Cristiano and Messi, it is always complicated.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, they play on a different galaxy.

In the World Cup finals, you're unlikely to meet a continental rival. In Copa America, you know they are just around the corner and that you will have to beat them to win the competition.

The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.

I have friends who play for Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.

I am excited to play alongside players such as Carlos Tevez and Yaya Toure, whom I have only seen on TV, and to be in the same team as players I have played against such as Jerome Boateng and Vincent Kompany.

We are just lucky to be able to watch Ronaldo and Messi at their best.

I'm playing in the Premier League and my first two games could be against Manchester City and Liverpool. I don't think it gets much better than that.

We're a small country, and if you look at it that way, then we're at a disadvantage, though I know that most of the players who know or have come up against Uruguayans prefer to avoid us.

To sum it up, I would say that the Premier League is football's NBA.