I wouldn't want to finish my career with the number 20 shirt; I say everything with that.

I admire Cristiano's ambition and his goal-scoring touch.

I'm surprised by Cristiano Ronaldo every day because of the ambition he has to win. That infects all his teammates.

My debut was in a final. I was not nervous. I scored a goal, and I won my first title. In all my debuts, I've always been able to score goals, and I have come to Madrid to stay and score many goals.

What success has done is present me with a lot of opportunities, and I haven't necessarily learned to say 'no' as well as I should have.

I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.

From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.