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“I've always been Carlos Vela - sincere, original and true to myself.”
“When you're in Europe and you play there, and you hear about MLS, everybody thinks it's easy. It's not true. The level is really good.”
“I always worked to be the best player.”
“Now I speak English.”
“The most important part of my life came in San Sebastian: my new family.”
“I want to be the best leader.”
“I don't have any problem with people correcting me and telling me how I can be better.”
“My family's close.”
“If I go out to eat with my wife or take my son to the park, nobody cares.”
“I want to surprise all the fans, all the people in MLS.”
“You give it everything you've got, help your team so that the wins come for your country.”
“It is very special for me to be the first Designated Player in LAFC history.”
“As of myself, I work with Heineken, who is a huge sponsor that enables us to get inside a kind of market that would be very hard to get into without its help.”
“To represent your country is always very nice.”
“I think my decision to stay at Real is looking more and more like the right one. I've never regretted coming back. I came because I trusted the team and I thought we could get better.”
“The truth is I've been through a lot and you see that this is a job. It's not like for fans, for whom it is a feeling and a passion.”
“I love Mexico.”
“In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.”
“I don't like the soccer industry and yes, I do like to play.”
“Of course I always want Mexico to win.”