"Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's footballâ€”for me, at least."

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Source : "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

Xavi

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“I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.”
“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”
“My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.”
“The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.”
“There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.”
“I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.”
“Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.”
“Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.”

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