To me, wrestling always comes first.

I feel comfortable talking to Vince, which seems so crazy for me to say. For me, I've been a fan, I've been watching him forever, and I'm like, 'Yeah, I'm comfortable to talk to Vince McMahon.'

Honestly, I just want to wrestle! Like, I don't need to be in these crazy gimmick matches or always be working for the championship.

Of course I want to be champion because that means you're the best, but I just love wrestling, and if I can have good matches week in and week out, that would make me happy.

People want to see Ronda Rousey because she is an attraction.

My goal is to be the women's champion, to main event on a regular basis, to be at 'WrestleMania.'

I think I have done everything I can here in NXT, and I do want to test myself on the main roster.

The blue gear with the red dinosaur is special to me because that's the first gear I wore in NXT.

It's just insane because, as a longtime WWE fan, I still have all of my action figures in storage. Now to have my own, and to see my nephews play with them, to see kids tweet me pictures with them, and to see people are actually going out of their way searching all of these stores trying to find them, it's really cool and humbling.

We've worked with Special Olympics Florida before, and I had so much fun doing that. It was really inspiring to meet all the athletes.

It's always a lot of fun to get to interact with people and meet different fans.

I have a bunch of fan art. I love it.

Fans come with pictures. People give me headbands, and girls have bracelets. It's really cool to get to meet them.

It's not like I don't like the term 'Diva.' It's what you make of it.

There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.

I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.

I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.

I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.

I always want to play and help, especially when we're at the top of the league.

In Munich, we play to win.

When our players come from somewhere else, they sometimes show happiness when the game is 0-0 or 1-1, but we were brought up in an environment where we have to win. We are not satisfied with 0-0 or 1-1. This is the mentality of Bayern Munich.

The small teams are playing well. That's visible, and it has had an impact on German football.

I know most of Europe do not want to play against Bayern Munich.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.

There is fireworks before the game; there is the national anthem before the game, so that is a huge difference to how it is in Germany: like, after the warmup, you touch the ball 20 minutes later. So that is a little bit different. The league, for example, the MLS is quite a young league, actually, but it is developing.

I love to have the ball. That's why I play soccer, and we have a great coach who has this kind of view, he sees everything, and I just want to help as much as I can, on the pitch and off the pitch.

I just want to play well, have the people in Chicago enjoy watching soccer. You have a very good baseball team, a very good ice hockey team, and a very good football team. Hopefully you'll have a very good soccer team.

It's incredibly difficult to make sure that everybody's happy.

I have to thank the coach for looking after my fitness and allowing me to feel my way into the tournament.

First of all, I think it is not easy to win a title in the Premier League, as you have really good teams here.

I was looking forward my whole career to once playing somewhere else to get the experience, and if I thought about moving to England, I always had Manchester United in my head.

I was looking forward to playing soccer, playing more minutes on the pitch, and I didn't have the chance to play more minutes in Manchester. So I came here to the Chicago Fire.

I just want to help, first of all, the Chicago Fire to grow, to change the mentality to a winning team, and to reach the playoffs. That's my goal. But also to change the game style into a team which is able to control every opponent.

I see huge potential for the league and also for America.

I'm not really a negative thinker.

I am a football player. I like to win. And I am used to winning - quite a lot.

I never doubted my quality. Let me show my quality, and I will get results.

Even when I was training alone, just me and one of United's fitness coaches, I loved going onto the field, doing sprints, being at the training ground.