For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

No individual can win a game by himself.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Everything is practice.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

When we make the effort for each other, it makes the difference.

We try not to let the pressure get into our heads and play the way we usually do.

Football goes fast but it can go quickly in both directions.

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

I work hard every day to try to help my team. I try to have fun too – because football is still fun – and scoring goals, breaking records, that’s what drives me.

The Champions League is very difficult and you need to keep your concentration at all times.

With Ronaldo in the league, people will be passionate again about Serie A.

I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of.

I’m not going to revolutionise football. I’m in a system. You have to know how to respect it and to stay in place.

I try to work to improve myself every day and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions.