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“I'd 1,000 times rather go see an NBA game than a football match.”
“I wanted to leave so much that when I heard I had a good offer to play and leave England, it was a case of me saying: 'I love it! Yes, let's go!'”
“Arsenal gave me the opportunity to come to Europe when I was 17. I didn't have as many opportunities as I expected and I had to try new chances.”
“When you are a player, sometimes, you forget you are a person, you are a father, you are a husband.”
“Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, 'I'm a Madrid fan until death.'”
“I'm at my country's disposition.”
“What people don't understand is that no one is perfect.”
“Playing soccer is what I've done and known all my life, starting at such a young age with my friends.”
“Sometimes, you have to stop your life or your career and say 'What is the best for my family, for me?'”
“All of us make mistakes and the majority of us have missed a day's work for whatever reason.”
“I am not a person who loves to watch games and that doesn't mean I don't like soccer. I take advantage to do other things in my free time.”
“I put pressure on myself because I want to be the best player.”
“I've never regretted signing for Real and the results prove me right.”
“We want to make our fans happy and I hope we can achieve that.”
“I am ready to give 100% for Arsenal.”
“Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.”
“Everything is possible in this life.”
“I think that people in Mexico talk too much.”
“I'm open to listening to proposals, options, it doesn't hurt.”
“It's not only the things I want, football is a business and you know how it works.”