Marcos Alonso Quotes

Twenty-four hours a day football was a topic at home. I’ve always loved to play the game.

Everything I can do to help is good for the team and good for myself.

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played with the first team at 18.

It’s never easy to get the points at the beginning of the season and even more with a new manager.

I’m very happy at Chelsea but I would like to return to Spain one day.

It is hard for a young player at Real Madrid, they will always buy in new players and not look at the youths. If I stayed I could have been in the reserves for years.

The only thing that counts is hard work.

I’m very happy with my career and I want to improve even more.

I don’t ever think I am going to go out and die on a football pitch.

In England I feel very well known, not only by Chelsea’s fans, but also by other teams.

I had some other offers from other teams from Italy and Spain but when Chelsea came to get me, I did not think twice.

It is not easy to bring the methods of a new manager to the Premier League.

I’m not a massive basketball fan but I follow some of the Spanish players.

It’s important to start games well and then we could keep control of the game.

Everyone tries to give 100 per cent for the team. If you can help with goals or assists then it’s even more important.

It was a great two years in Italy, I played a lot of games and gained experience in a different league. So you pick up new stuff, new ways of doing things, on and off the pitch, and I think that has made me a better player, and also more mature mentally.

Italy is a very competitive league, where most of the teams wait for you.

Football is a sport that changes very quickly.

Conte is a hard trainer, who likes to work on the physical and tactical aspect. When you are training you suffer, but then you thank him in the field.

I grew up with football in my house.

Other than football, I think I’d pick tennis and golf as my favourite other sports.

Football is like this. The better the team you play for, the more fans follow you and there are millions of coaches and managers around the world! Some of them understand football one way; some of them have another opinion.

I always try to work hard every day, because today you can be at your best, but tomorrow you can be no one.

I learnt a lot at Bolton. At Sunderland I had six months. When I arrived they were bottom of the table and we got to the League Cup final and finished the season in 14th.

When you are a kid, you aren’t mature and you want to get up and play every week.

I don’t know why someone would go to Bayern Munich.

I liked playing in lanes, especially because of the offensive opportunities you have in that position.

I’m always looking for more, looking to improve and get better. That’s something inside me, I know I have to work for it.

Real Madrid was my home for a long time and I’ve not forgotten it. I grew up there, I met a lot of people and I made my debut. There’s part of me that will always be there, I can’t deny it. To play for the first team was a dream.

I was 11 or 12 when I had my trial with Real Madrid.

I am the best to judge when I play well and when I don’t.

I really like the Premier League and to have the opportunity to play for Chelsea and win titles.

Before I retire I’d like to play in La Liga.

Italians work hard physically and tactically.

My father is a massive Barcelona and Atletico fan because he used to play in those teams.

Here at Fiorentina there are great players with whom I can train and learn, like Mario Gomez, Guiseppe Rossi and Massimo Ambrosini – there is a big difference compared to Bolton.

People were used to see me in a 3-5-2 because in Fiorentina that was also where I played. But the hard thing was to adapt to that when I arrived in Italy.

I want to score more goals, I want to give more assists, I want to do more tackles.

It’s good to play in different ways.

From my early years at Bolton I knew that Chelsea were a great club and the truth is that I was right to come here.