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“The bad moments are the most important ones, when you support each other. That's when you realise the spirit you have in the team - and that it is more than a team.”
“I loved to score goals but then I realised how beautiful it was to move the team, be the leader of the team and try to organise the team.”
“As for the way I saw football, I had always enjoyed watching the game and it's true: I always found it quite easy, when a team was successful, to see why that was. I could see how they were creating the space.”
“My aim is to be the best but other people have to decide.”
“You can't stop competing and that's what Guardiola instils in us every day, that every game is a final.”
“Football is a sport but it's also a show and to take care of the sport and the show you have to take care of the footballers.”
“When I finish my career as a player I'd like to stay in contact with the sports world, but if it doesn't happen, that's fine too.”
“You move on and in defeat you learn more than in victories.”
“I'm not used to scoring goals but if it happens and it helps the team and it is a final and to win it, it's something fantastic.”
“I'm not used to tackles. I don't know, it's on your own the way you learn. I steal the ball in another way I see other players always go down or tackle but I'm very big. If I go to ground I waste a lot of time before I can go again so I have another way to steal balls.”
“Joining City in 2019 is the best decision I have made in my career.”
“Simeone and Guardiola are two opposites.”
“When you give everything, there is nothing to regret.”
“We will never underestimate the other teams.”
“In the end, playing three or four years in the same team allows you to advance in different facets.”
“I always try to learn from Busquets.”
“I watched a lot of games - my family was sick of it - and I could judge if a player was thinking. I tried to add that to my game; I could see that if I understood the game I would have an advantage, especially at a young age when few players have that conceptual understanding.”
“City is my second family and, with family, you live good moments and bad moments with them.”
“I think to win you have to have lost before.”
“I think I'm a very polite guy.”