Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.

When you sign a contract with a club like Barca, that's what you have to cope with. You have to show your face when you've lost games. I knew that when I came into the job.

Ronaldo leaving would seem to have ended the competition between Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo because people rarely mention one without mentioning the other. A lot of people are interested - me, too - to see how it will affect Real Madrid's football and what they might do in the transfer market.

Winning the UCL is really difficult. Only one team can win it, so it's very difficult.

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It's maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.

I went to school to Washburn to play basketball, and I always believed if basketball didn't work out I could fall back on golf.

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.