"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."

"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."

"I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea."

"At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart."

"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."

"My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice."

"The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point."

"The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition."

"After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain."

"My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser."

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

"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."

"When you have a bad result, you want the next game to come as quickly as possible because a good result will make people forget about the bad result."

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

"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 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."

"I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to Brooklyn. I just sort of became an adult and started speaking up for myself and not apologising for myself."

"The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high."

"When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice."

"Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative."

"My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice."

"You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand."