"We want the best players to be at Barcelona."

"When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck."

"It seems like when I don't talk so much, people praise my performances more."

"I've been playing very well for a number of years."

"To have the chance to win the treble is very good and rare."

"I'll retire at Barca. I don't know when - the older I am, the better. I'm sure about that; I can't see myself wearing any other shirt."

"I don't associate this sport with anything except Barcelona."

"There comes a point when you realise that you're storming forward, that you can beat anyone, and this is what has ended up winning us the league and putting us in two finals."

"Negredo is an exceptional player."

"I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester."

"I'm not cut out to be a coach."

"I want to be president of Barcelona - that's my dream."

"Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him."

"I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing."

"Players like Neymar are great for football."

"I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing."

"Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected."

"At Barcelona, we didn't do gym work until the age of 18. That was really hard."

"Everybody knows that footballers have text groups on WhatsApp. I have one just for my friends from home, and I have another just for my Barca team-mates."

"You're not always at your best."

"There won't be more Messis, and we don't expect there to be more, as there won't be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me."

"Experience says it's not easy to find a center back for Barca."

"In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring."

"Barcelona is my life, and I do not plan to leave."