When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

I'm happy at Real Madrid and can imagine ending my career here - if all goes well.

Madrid are a great club and were the challenge I sought after my long and successful Bayern career.

Any football club, any person, any human being alive goes through adversity. The art of living life is to recover from that and respond to any challenges being thrown at you.

Basketball requires discipline. So does writing. Basketball requires practice. So does writing. Basketball requires resilience. So does writing.

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

I was always thankful for the YMCA. Of course, growing up, you don't really think about it, because when you're a kid, you're in your own world. But back then, it was just so much. I'm going to go the Y, hanging out, playing games all day, playing basketball.