I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

I'm going to Inter to see if they will let me play a bit of football.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.