I heard my new team-mates saying, 'We have got to hope that we don't go down.' I thought to myself, 'What kind of a mentality is that?'

More Quotes by Granit Xhaka

I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product.

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

We always have hope. Hope dies last.

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.