“Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.”

Barcelona is my life, they have brought me to where I am today, I could not leave, I don’t want to leave. My heart stays with Barcelona.

As always, it’s a pleasure to get together with our fans at training and feel that they’re even closer to us. Ever grateful for your support!

My family always gave me love and accompanied me in each of my challenges.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.

It is the time to be responsible and stay at home, it is also perfect to enjoy that time with your loved ones that you cannot always have.

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.

I love spending time with my children, it’s what makes me happiest!

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child.

Together, we will continue to support the fight against this cruel disease as cancer through elements as important as prevention and research.

It was a real honour to receive the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

Plastic pollution in the ocean is reaching very high levels and only together can we fight to stop this.

A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

Say more with your feet than you ever could with words.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

As athletes, we think we’re heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don’t think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.

I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I’ve always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I’ll continue to try to do that.

I don’t know about politics so much. I’m a professional athlete.