“Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.”

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

I know the English fans will treat players as they deserve, and I’m not worried about that in the slightest.

You have to maintain a sense of unity – a good atmosphere where everyone feels happy is one of the keys to success, and that’s something you shouldn’t lose.

I think of myself as a great player, but the fans have to decide whether that’s true.

We’ve had to handle defeat many times, and you can’t drawn any conclusions.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

It’s up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

Disrespect is bad for the atmosphere around a team.

I don’t care whether I play on the right or in the centre. All I want is for the coach to have faith in me.

Every day, I wake up eager to learn new things, and I am grateful to Mourinho for that.

Whenever we lose, it is a sad day.

I keep my opinions to myself. I’ve always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

It is good to have competition.

I would love to win the Ballon d’Or, but honestly, I’m not even thinking about it.

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

I can take critism, but if it’s like ‘I don’t like you’ then I want to know why people don’t like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?

If you don’t have critics, you probably don’t have success either.

You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

If you mind criticism, I think you can’t protect people’s lives.

We’re fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

Most of my critics don’t even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.