The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.
The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been like that since I was young. I knew I had to take my chance when it came. Nobody gives you anything. You have to go and take it and this was the way I think.
We are always larger than life because we come from this mentality that since we are a very poor nation, we need an escapist cinema to take us out of our miseries. And that's where Bollywood comes from.
I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.
We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.
It's a great mentality that we have, we don't want to settle for just winning games.
One moment that changed my mentality was the first time I went to Mali when I was six. Soon after that trip, Barcelona signed me, but when I was there I saw children like me, six years old, who didn't have shoes, while I had the opportunity to fulfil my dream. It shocked me. I was six and I didn't understand.
Offers from Madrid or Barca will come when they come, but my mentality is to continue growing as a player.
