When there's a need for someone to speak, I'm there. When there's tough times, I'm there.

I see football as a team sport, I'm not looking for the spotlight.

What's for sure is that the profile of the central defender is evolving. At one time it was all about the stopper and the libero. Today, central defenders have to be more complete.

I'm quite shy and quite reserved. But when things start heating up, I don't hesitate to show my character, whether that's in good moments, like when we won the World Cup, or more difficult moments.

It's the desire to keep winning. Each season the counters are reset to zero. You've either got a title to defend or one to go and win. We want to keep making our honours list longer.

To experience a Euros in France is hugely motivating.

It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so far.

When you don't believe in me, I don't say anything but it titillates me.

A good run is always good. It helps us to wear the colours of the France team.

Having played an international competition is definitely a plus.

At 20 years old I'm eager to play and to watch from the sidelines isn't easy.

I am very happy at Real Madrid.

I know the players with whom I play well.

We're not going to win 5-0 every game.

I am not one to discuss my future publicly.

The most important thing to me is time spent on the pitch.

Interest from Bayern or Man Utd? It is greatly flattering to hear those names, and I even ask myself if that is really about me.

It's hard to criticise Ronaldo. When we come back from an away game at 4 A.M., he is one of the players that goes straight to the training complex to jump in cold water to accelerate the speed of his recovery. He is an example to follow.

During my second year at Madrid, Jose Mourinho gave me a kick up the backside. I wasn't doing well, I wasn't managing to do what he wanted me to out on the pitch. So he chided me, saying: 'Why don't you run in training?' My first reaction was to mutter, 'Oh come on... ' But I knew he was right, I had more to give.

Mourinho doesn't need to give long speeches. He's direct and to the point.

Just imagine, I was doing exams and signing autographs for other students. It was surreal. I'm really proud that I passed.

The results of anything are equal to how persistent you are with it, so if you're persistent and dedicate yourself to working out, you'll get bigger results.

If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.

It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

When you have a training relationship, it's not about winning, it's about making each other better and helping each other.

I've been working on my ground game, my jiu jitsu, and my standup as well. Those are areas where I feel like really needs to be cleaned up and areas I know that I can get better.

I'm the guy that everybody wants to hate.

Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

When I fight, part of the swagger that I had when I used to fight on the street comes out. When I fought on the street, I used to try to embarrass someone for even wanting to fight me.

When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye coordination.

I'm always interested to watch Chris Leben fight. He just fights from a different place.

I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.

Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.

I'm not really too worried about the mystique of Jon Jones. Because I know Jon Jones' core. I remember when Jon Jones used to come up to me and say, 'Hey man, what's it like when everybody wants to take pictures with you?' So I know Jon Jones.

I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

Being relaxed allowed me to fight the way I'm capable of fighting.

Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I got two chances.

I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.

My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.