Figo Quotes

#1. I've always been a big fan of Thierry Henry. I enjoy watching all the great players, really. But we're always drawn to some players more than others, and in my case, it's Titi. He's my favourite player. I also really liked Luis Figo when he was at Real Madrid.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#2. Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

Mark Lawrenson

#3. Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Kevin Keegan

#4. Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#5. To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

Luis Figo

#6. Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.

Harold Ballard

#7. I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.

Luis Figo

#8. Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.

Luis Figo

#9. If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

Luis Figo

#10. In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

Luis Figo

#11. I'm going to Inter to see if they will let me play a bit of football.

Luis Figo

#12. I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

Luis Figo

#13. But Iorek and Iofur were more than just two bears. There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies. Iofur had begun to take them in one direction, and Iorek would take them in another, and in the same moment, one future would close forever as the other began to unfold.

Philip Pullman

#14. When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Luis Figo

#15. There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

Luis Figo

#16. There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

Luis Figo

#17. He lifts my chin and looks at me.
"I don't want to break you, Lou-Lou."

He leans his forehead against mine.
"But sometimes you have to break in order to be fixed. And if you trust me enough to fall apart, I swear...I'll put you back together again.

Ashley Jade

#18. I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

Luis Figo

#19. I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it,

Luis Figo

#20. We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

Diane Ravitch

#21. The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Luis Figo

#22. Player I would like to sign for Internazionale? It's easy, the strongest in Europe at the moment is Lionel Messi, so I would say him. Messi has amazing qualities, he is the best of all, number one. That is unquestiionable.

Luis Figo

#23. I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

Luis Figo

#24. I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

Manju Kapur

#25. Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.

Luis Figo

#26. As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Luis Figo