Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.
There are people you can say you have seen play, such as Pele or Maradona. But Messi is unique, out on his own, and is going to make history. I can say I saw Messi play.
Spain started to generate a very good playing style from Pep Guardiola's arrival at Barcelona.
Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.
I can play in any position except goalkeeper.
All of you know how Pep Guardiola is as a manager... he is the best coach in history.
The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played.
Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.
Leo is the best player in the world; that is very clear.
I was right choosing to play with Spain. It is a pride; the decision was easy. I love Spain.
I'm thrilled to be at a massive club like Bayern Munich.
One of my dreams is to lift a title with Spain. I lifted titles in the past that did not feel like mine.
I would like to play with all the great players who would love to come to Bayern.
In Spain, everything's more tactical, more technical, with more possession. In Germany, it's more physical; it's about the runs you make, the counterattacks, and the German mentality is unique: whatever the score, you go to the 90th minute.
I love watching English football. It's the league I most enjoy.
My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I'm more from Spain. That's how I grew up.
The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you've seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture.
For any dad who has two footballing sons, to have them in a semi-final and know that at least one will reach the final is the best present in the world.
You need to know how to enjoy the victories. In the end, this is a great sport, and it's to be enjoyed.
When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programme with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.
