It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I don't look at records, that's not why I'm playing the game. Goals, of course. Every player in my position wants to score goals. But most of all, trophies. My target is always to win trophies for Barcelona, and that will always be my motivation, to win things. Nothing feels better than doing that as a team.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.