Xherdan Shaqiri Quotes

English football is very offensive, all about fast attacks, and I like that.

If I were to leave Stoke, it would have to be a step up for me. Everything would have to be right.

With German teams, they always sit together – there are no phones on the table.

I want to play in big games from the beginning and not just in the Bundesliga when everything is already decided.

What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.

For me, it’s important to feel good.

Every player wants to play on the biggest stages in football. I have played for big teams. I know what it takes.

As I was always the youngest, I had to fight for everything.

We have to try and win every game because all of them are important.

I think my agents take care of my future.

I am the opposite of someone who is not professional.

I am proud to have started in the Champions League.

I would love to stay in England, but I don’t want to rule anything out.

Whether players are from Albania or Yugoslavia is not important. What’s important is to be a team on the pitch.

For me, nothing is impossible.

When I came to Stoke, I expected them to be moving forward, every year getting better, but it’s not been like this.

I live the Swiss mentality but the Kosovo mentality too, because when I go home, I speak Albanian.

I have always wanted to play in the Premier League because I am a fast, strong player, and I think it will suit me.

I think my stats speak for themselves.

Not everything depends on me. I can’t dribble the ball all the way from the back to the front.

You have competition all over the world, not only in football, in normal life, too. Everyone fights for his place, but in the end, we have many games to play, and everybody is going to play games.

It’s the most important thing – especially for a young player who wants to improve – to improve his talent and learn, and the best way to do that is to play in the games.

I have admired Jurgen Klopp for a long time because his teams play fantastic football, and he is a fantastic person.

Some ex-football players, or ex-teammates, they spoke to the media, and it looks like I am a bad boy or something, but I’ve never been a bad boy or had some problems at a club!

It was always my dream to come to the Premier League because I love this league, and I love this country. It’s an amazing place.

I’m just a player who wants to work and who does my job every day, the same as I always did.

When I played for the Basel youth team, I also worked in a sweet shop.

Of course it’s a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.

Swiss guys are always exactly on time, but Albanians are not like this.

We Shaqiris are observant Muslims, but we are a long way from everything extreme.