I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.

Sometimes, against the underdog, you can lose because they want it more. It happens to every team.

The small details are important if you want to be a good player.

Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he's the complete player - the best ever, probably.

I don't smile all the time, but I smile inside.

I wanted to win trophies and play for the biggest club, and the biggest club in England is Manchester United.

I am a striker, and people expect strikers to score goals. But I don't see myself as a striker.

I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.

You need to be a professional - how you train, how you eat, how you sleep, where you go outside of football.

You can find yourself doubting yourself. But that's when you need to keep faith and realise everything is going to be okay. You work hard in training and keep doing the things you're good at.

A player becomes great only when he realises he has great team-mates.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

Top-level football gives you fame and money, but it takes away a lot, too.

To win the league, you don't just need great players, but you need players who have the mentality of title winners.

If every player is on the left, and I am on the right, you need to trust me that I have seen something the other players have not seen.

I like to play with the ball and have the freedom to move around.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

Sport is healthy, but it can be the opposite of that at the top level. You have so many injuries; you put your body through so much. You wake up at 2 in the morning, and you cannot move.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

When you know how to read football, it is easier for some players.

If Lukaku is not as good as others with his first touch, then give him a ball that he can handle.

When United wanted me, I was like a horse with blinkers on. I was not interested in anyone else. City offered more money, but the team was weaker, and their history couldn't compete with United.

When I signed for United, I felt like it was a reward for everything that I'd been through in my life.

Nobody wants to play bad football in a game; everybody wants to win, and every player wants to show how good he is. But, you know, sometimes you simply have a game where nothing is happening.

Players want to enjoy their football and talk up their performances.

Jose Mourinho knows how to control to big players in the dressing room, to control egos. He's done it all his life and knows how to work it into the team.

On the pitch, you can have the feeling that everything is happening for you, from passing to tackles.

Sometimes self-esteem affects you on and off the pitch. Until you face your next game and you miss an easy chance, for example, then you feel not as great.

It doesn't matter how many goals you score; one goal is enough if you don't let one in your net.

When you train with good players or watch matches on TV, you want to do what they do.

I just want to entertain and make people enjoy the game and smile.

I will dream about winning the Golden Ball until I stop playing.

When I set myself a target, I aim to reach it.

Because we are a small country, unlike England, Italy, or Brazil, we don't have as many good players.

For me, if the ball's in the net, it doesn't matter if it's an overhead kick or just a tap-in.

If we win 1-0, I don't care if the goalkeeper scores.

Every human being is different.

A player may have a future only if he respects the players who taught and advised him.

I don't play for the money.

Those who know me, my really close friends, know that I play for enjoyment and to entertain the fans.

I have handled pressure and expectation all through my life. I am not scared of it.

I wouldn't say I have felt troubled here at United. I am not troubled. I am lucky. I have loved my time here.

Every coach has their own philosophy for getting the best out of players, and sometimes these can seem strange to the public.

Obviously, I like to play a lot with the ball.

I want to teach the young people the way I see football. The way I eat, the way I am in training.

Football is a simple game. It is not difficult to play football: just pass the ball around.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

I like to play like that, with beauty and grace.

I cannot speak for other players, but it is always good when the manager comes to ask how you're feeling and makes you feel calm before you play the game.

As soon as I score, my mother texts me, so when I go in the dressing room, her text is there waiting for me to read!