We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.

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.

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!