There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims - it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can't get.

Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.

I love the game of football.

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

I believe society and football are all the time together, and will come to a new harmony.

My dad produces good footballers.

People think that football is all glamour and money but trust me all footballers go through the same boring and annoying things as everybody else.

When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.

I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

It's part of football to accept your responsibility.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.

The real football starts in training camp.

Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.