I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.