“Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.”

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 wake up every day with tremendous enthusiasm.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion Islam is not Islamophobia.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.