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“Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.”
“Obviously, playing in a World Cup is always beautiful, helping your team is always cool, but when you don't think it's time, you have a clear conscience.”
“You don't know where you'll end up.”
“It's always great to know successful people like Canelo, especially those that make our country proud.”
“I hope I'm lucky enough to be at Arsenal for a long time.”
“A part of me will stay at La Real and San Sebastian.”
“We want to do something important in the World Cup, and hopefully I have the chance. If not, well, life goes on, I'll keep working the same way and supporting my teammates.”
“If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.”
“I was playing for 12 years in Europe. It's a long time you know. When you are from Mexico you miss your family, you miss your friends.”
“My life was always one year here, I squeezed out what I could from it, enjoyed it the most possible and changed. That was the way of life I had.”
“It's part of improving every day, being willing to be receptive of the people who know and see things from the outside that you might not notice in the inside.”
“I love to go on the field, and I want to score 100 goals every game, if I can. But it's also my job, and when I finish my job, I have a life. I have a family.”
“When I'm working, I want to be the best. But when I'm out, I don't want to watch games. I don't want to talk with everybody about football. I want to talk about life - about anything else.”
“My family has taught me to keep my feet on the ground and be humble.”
“You can't close the door on anybody.”
“I don't know whether I would return to El Tri.”
“I enjoy playing but the moment the game ends, football ends and you can talk to me about anything except football because I don't feel comfortable.”
“It has been a useful experience to play for several different teams and move around.”
“The best decision I've made was the one to stay in San Sebastian.”
“At the end of the day, every person makes their own evaluation and their own criticism and it's all respectable. I don't want to say who is right and who isn't.”