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For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.
I've been lucky to be born in Spain to a good family. But some team-mates reached the same position from a tough background. Football is equal, and it doesn't matter where you come from.
Wherever I go, I see kids playing football. Even if there is no grass and it's just sweaters for goals, you see how people love football.
If I was 19, 20, 18, and I had the chance to play with first-team players of Manchester United, I will definitely try to take my chance.
For me, football is what I love to do most. It is also the thing I'm better doing than anything else.
It would be great to play until I'm 40 like Ryan Giggs.
You never know what can happen in football and in life.
I think every footballer, after 20 years playing football, the first thing that comes to your mind is to relax.
With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.
I live in a bubble. Real life is the one my friends live. They've had to look for work, sign on to the dole, and emigrate. That's normal life now. My life as a footballer is not normal.
The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.
Football is not about money but emotions.
Winning the World Cup is something that will always be inside your mind and inside your body.
It is true that footballers are mistrustful.
Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.
Every player thinks he's Maradona when he joins a big club. That happens to all of us, but then you start to notice it in the younger players. You see kids who think they're rock stars, wearing extravagant clothes and driving fancy cars... and sometimes you have to take them aside and have a word.
Football's incomparable to anything else - perhaps only music has that same power to transform society.
When I signed for Valencia, it wasn't the best moment of my football career because in the beginning, I was not playing a lot. But I remained calm, and I knew that if I trained well and played as I know, I'm sure I can get a place in the first XI.
There are some examples in my career when my family was more concerned than me. So every time I win or I score, I always think about them.
