Athlete

Shakira has a very great career, knows a lot, and has taught me a lot. She came into my life to transform it, and that makes me very happy.

As a teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo is a perfect '10.' I admire him professionally because he sets an example to follow both as a player and as a person.

The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona is very big.

Not everything, always, is about your performance. It's about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not play well. It's all about the team.

It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.

Real Madrid are such an immense team - a big, big club.

Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected.

I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.

I've never seen a Barca without control of the game. I've never seen a Barca that doesn't have the ball and lets the opposition attack all the time.

There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation.

When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

My style suits Barcelona's style of play.

In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.

Barcelona is my life, and I do not plan to leave.

I moved to Manchester United when I was a 17-year-old kid. Nemanja Vidic was five years older than me and Rio Ferdinand nearly nine years, and at the time, they were the best central defenders in the world. They never had a bad game.

I always said that Messi has some talent that no one has. I mean, he has the ball and his speed controlling the ball. The ball doesn't go two metres far from his foot; it's always there. It's impossible to catch him. This talent I didn't see from anyone.

I am privileged and very happy to be a professional sportsperson, but should that make people so angry?

It's true that sometimes we have paparazzi or some kind of photographers following us, but you have to live normal. I mean, if you try to not go to the supermarket or not go to the cinema, you won't live properly, and you won't enjoy living. We are trying to be as normal as we can.