Luck - it's key for every footballer's career. I have been incredibly lucky during my career and in my life.

If you want to be anonymous, you can go to Soho or Camden, and it's not a problem. There are a lot of Spanish people. If you go to Piccadilly or Oxford Circus, you hear lots of Spanish voices, but I'm not recognised much.

You never know what can happen in football and in life.

Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way.

Wherever I go, I see kids playing football. Even if there is no grass and it's just sweaters for goals, you see how people love football.

I see children now, and many things surprise me: they ask me about my boots and why I don't dye my hair. I wonder, 'Why don't you talk to me about how to cross the ball, control it, the position of the body when I strike the ball?'

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

Everything depends on the club more than the player: the quantities, the paperwork.

A win doesn't last too long, and it happens the same way with a defeat. You have the chance to make it up soon afterwards.

The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.

To be honest, I was never expecting to be in a World Cup final, a Euro final, a Champions League final, a Europa League final. I've done much more than I dreamt, and that's incredible.

When I signed for Valencia, it wasn't the best moment of my football career because in the beginning, I was not playing a lot. But I remained calm, and I knew that if I trained well and played as I know, I'm sure I can get a place in the first XI.

A coach depends on whether I take a corner well or finish a chance in front of goal, and really, what influence does he have over this when it happens?

I live in a bubble. Real life is the one my friends live. They've had to look for work, sign on to the dole, and emigrate. That's normal life now. My life as a footballer is not normal.

I've been in England for a while, but it's true that at times you miss home, your family, your friends.

When you are in a club like Manchester United, you have a lot of pressure around you.

One of the first lessons I learned in football is that it takes a team to win a game.

I'm a person who doesn't think bad about other people or feel happy when other people don't get results.

I don't dab, bro.

One of the best things if you are a football player is to see the faces of the kids, when they see you and are dreaming of being like you one day. That's a big responsibility, to be a good image for those kids. A football player is more than just a football player.

Sometimes you look at footballers and think they're selfish or they don't bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate footballers and their capacity to have a strong opinion and sympathy for others.

It was football for me always.

Football is a lot to do with mentality.

People have to fear England and not want to play us. The only way of doing that is to play at a high tempo and win games.