Dani Alves Quotes

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Dani Alves

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 6, 1983

Starting in a World Cup is always complicated, hard, and important. When you start well... The rest of the competitors are watching. I think it's the most important match in a World Cup, along with the final.

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For me, Thiago Silva remains the best defender in the world.

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If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

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It's the old story: do you want a normal car, or something top of the range? That is how I am - the older I am, the more expensive I am!

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You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

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People automatically think that because you attack, you can't defend. Not true.

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I have had disagreements with journalists, but they annoy me so much when they don't talk about football.

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If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

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I think that the best player in the world should be quiet, humble, and friendly. Lionel Messi is all of these things, while Cristiano often lacks some of these qualities.

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Barcelona focus a lot on what Barcelona does and not on what others are going to do. It creates a different way of working. Of course we studied our opponents to see their weak points and their strong points, but 70 per cent of the time, it was about us.

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I love English football. I love the way people live it so intensely.

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I'm a very restless person, and new experiences excite me more than anything else.

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I left hurt because I think I fought hard to create a great history at Barcelona. I left with 23 titles in eight years.

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Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.

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Messi is much better than Cristiano Ronaldo.

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If people only knew how much I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. I will repeat it to make myself clear: I respect Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Barcelona is my home. It's impossible to say that I wouldn't return.

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Anytime someone is wearing Jordan, you have to respect!

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I like happiness, and when people try to destroy that, it winds me up.

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At other clubs I have been, at Juventus, at Barca, we had two 'ships': one for the domestic league and another for the Champions League.

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