To become a great player, you've got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you've got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you've got to fight to make your dreams come true.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.

Ignorance makes you very bold.

We have to keep calm and stick together; that's the key to success.

It's true that when I started out, I was more a fan of attacking players and one in particular: the Brazilian Ronaldo, Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. Another of my idols was Claudio Caniggia, an Argentinian forward with long hair, who I liked a lot. It's because of him that I started to grow my hair long!