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

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

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.

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.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

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.