I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.
I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world
The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
It takes sacrifice as well as talent.
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.
Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
There's no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent
I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.
You have got to love the game.
I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.
I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that I should approach it in another way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to amuse oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing.
At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.
Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.
One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.
Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.
You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
Of course money takes that worry out of your life and enables you to provide for your family - but if it was playing professional football for free or choose another living, then I would choose football every time.
The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.
