David Silva

“Playing big teams is something I really enjoy - the bigger the team the better.”

“Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.”

“I pray every night to win the Champions League with City.”

“Football is very simple for me.”

“The Champions League is the most important competition; it's fundamental to be involved in it.”

“I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.”

“With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.”

“I love to play in the middle to be in contact with the ball all the time. I'm very happy to play in that position.”

“I'm very happy to be at City, and I would like to continue there for as long as possible. It obviously depends on my health, my quality on the pitch, and if the club want me to stay. I would like to be there until the end, but the Premier League is such a hard league to play in. It is much more physical than somewhere like La Liga, so it depends.”

“The press often ask me about Messi and Ronaldo and who is the best, but one thing for me is very clear. For me, the No. 1 is Andres Iniesta, because he is my team-mate for Spain, and I can see that he is able to do even more difficult things on the pitch.”

“Every derby match is different, just like every season is different.”

“My life has always gone step by step.”

“At City, we don't just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount.”

“Even when you think you can't learn much more about the game, you can and do, in fact, learn more by looking at things in a different light.”

“I do not look at the end of my career with any fear.”

“I've always said I'm very happy at City.”

“At the end of the day, we're playing a sport.”

“The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.”

“I've always said that I'd like to play for Las Palmas - my local team.”

“Why did I leave Valencia? Because the club needed me to. I was happy there and wouldn't have left, but the situation the club was in demanded it.”