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.