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

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.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

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.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.