The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.