Gerard Pique

“If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.”

“When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.”

“I always think that the best players can fit in any team, no matter the style of the team.”

“Evolution is all about looking forward.”

“You're not always at your best.”

“I don't associate this sport with anything except Barcelona.”

“You try to do the best for your club, and you also create relationships and friendships - with Neymar, my relationship is really strong.”

“To have the chance to win the treble is very good and rare.”

“There won't be more Messis, and we don't expect there to be more, as there won't be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.”

“Not everything, always, is about your performance. It's about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not play well. It's all about the team.”

“My style suits Barcelona's style of play.”

“I am very proud of my three years there, of having decided to go to Manchester first - at 17, it was the perfect time for me to leave home because it helped make me as a person.”

“I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.”

“I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.”

“I remember, when I arrived in England, a lot of people said that my style of play was not for England.”

“It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.”

“I'm very proud of all the career I've had with the national team.”

“I can't stand comparisons to the past. It doesn't matter what we did in previous seasons.”

“It's essential to have equilibrium in your life.”

“I always try to say what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and without fear of what others will say or think, and that's how I've always lived. Sometimes, this has ended up hurting me, and other times, it has helped me, but I think you can never forget who you are, and I've always been myself, and that one of the things I'm most proud of.”