Javier Mascherano quotes

“I was disappointed not to be able to sign [for Barcelona] last season. When the best club in the world calls you, then it is something that you want to happen. I have signed for the only club who really wanted me. In no moment did I ever think that Inter was a possibility. Rafa valued me and perhaps that is why people started saying that I could go there but this is the only club that pushed to sign me,”
-- Javier Mascherano

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“Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.”
-- Javier Mascherano

Source : "Although Messi may not be human, it's good he still thinks he is - Mascherano" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com. May 6, 2012.

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“I have no problem living in Liverpool, but I think my wife and daughters deserve to enjoy every day to the full and live their lives - but they have to be at home all day. My wife doesn't speak a word of English, so she depends 100% on me. I live here with them. That's my world, that's my life.”
-- Javier Mascherano

Source : "Unsettled Javier Mascherano hints at move away from Liverpool" by Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2010.

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“It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player.”
-- Javier Mascherano

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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Think it over, think it under.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”