1. “If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.”
2. “If you don’t like how we play, then turn off the tv.”
3. “Iniesta is the boyfriend that every mother wants her daughter to have. The figures over his career tell you all you need to know. He is a magical player. There are few players in the world that can compare to him.”
4. CR7 is the best player in the world, we’re lucky to train with him every day and to have him with us.
5. Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker.
6. I’ll probably give half (the money) to my mom because she does everything for me. Getting the MVP is just amazing.
7. It’s very important to have young players in the side, as they can bring something new to the table. You need to strike a balance between new talent and old heads.
8. We still have second place in our sights and that isn’t bad. (If we get second), we can build on that and I’m sure that next year we’ll be challenging for titles again.
9. RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.
10. We have to learn from all this, be brave and go all out in the return game. It’s a heavy blow and we need to work really hard to improve.
11. Our season is on the line. It’s in our hands and we’ll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.
12. It is necessary to be realistic, the two are complicated but we have trimmed the difference (to Barcelona) and are fighting for everything.
13. More important than playing him one-on-one, the key is group coverage. If we play as a team, don’t leave any gaps, play tightly together, and fall back well, I’m positive they’ll have lots of trouble beating us.
14. When you put on this shirt, you know that you’ve arrived at the very top. There is no greater honour.
15. I didn’t want to talk about it because in the end it gets magnified, but looking closely at the play, he grabs my arm first and I fall the other way. He hurts his other arm, but then people are saying it was a judo move.
16. I talked with (Salah) through messages and he is doing really well. If he had (an injection) he even could have played in the second half. I’ve done it a few times. It wasn’t such a big deal, but it seems that when it’s Ramos who does something, it gets a little more attention.
17. Real Madrid could sign Neymar but we’d have to negotiate his sister’s birthday.
18. After the goalkeeper said that I dazed him with a clash. I am only missing Firmino saying that he got a cold because a drop of my sweat landed on him.