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At the end of the season, the important thing is to be in first place. It doesn't matter if you score 15 or 20.
When a player hears the word 'psychologist' at the first, you are taken aback, but I realised that I needed help.
For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You've got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.
I want to score more than 20. It's my job. But it is not an obsession for me ahead of winning titles for the team.
I want to score more than 30 goals, but I would prefer to score 15 or 20 and get the Premier League or one big trophy.
For Spain, the more I play, the more goals I score, the more chance I have of making the World Cup and starting games.
He does not scare us; other things in life scare me. We all respect Messi, and he is one of the best players in the world.
I am hugely grateful to Mourinho. He is the coach who gave me my opportunity with Real Madrid, and I wish him lots of luck.
It is great to play with a player like Eden Hazard. He is one of the best in the world, and I am very lucky to play with him.
Every player wants to be at Real Madrid, of course. I fought my entire life to be at the club, but only in the starting line-up.
I'm always really grateful to Butragueno. He asks me how I am doing; he congratulates me when I score... I will always be grateful.
Of course I would have liked to have spent my whole life at Real Madrid, but if it cannot be, it cannot be, and you have to move on.
Of course I would return to Real Madrid once I win all there is to win with Chelsea and after a long and successful career at Chelsea.
The day I signed for Chelsea, I had to go around the world - from Los Angeles to Singapore, through London - and I trained. Difficult.
Obviously I have to respect Chelsea, who made a huge effort to sign me, and I'm very happy here. But Madrid will always be Madrid for me.
You should never have regrets in life. All the steps that I have taken in my career have served for something, and I have learned from them.
There's no way to stop Messi. The only way is for him not to have a good day, but that's difficult because most of the times he has good days.
In the Premier League, I think if you win your first five games, you're in the fight, because here in every game, you can lose or drop points.
English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.
With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.
Real Madrid are Real Madrid, and any player would want to be at Real Madrid. Why would I want to leave Real Madrid? I wanted to play, nothing else.
I will always be grateful to Madrid. I never said a bad word about anybody there. Everyone there, even the president, treated me really well always.
I want to score more goals, to play more games, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is that the team wins. The other things come with that.
Clearly, any player would want to go to Real Madrid, but I think if there wouldn't be all the space that one needs there, then it wouldn't be the best move.
Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.
I had a period where everything... if it's raining, I'm angry because it's raining. If I miss, it's because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.
Conte is the manager who most 'bet' on me without even ever having had me in his team. I feel indebted to him because he's the coach that most trusted in me, most wanted me.
In football, physical condition is very important, but the head is the most important thing. If you don't have the head, if the mentality is not good, then you are in trouble.
The idea of going to the psychologist, for anyone who has any problem, is associated with something negative. I think everyone sees it that way when it's really a very important thing.
People think we're machines; they don't realise that behind a bad run, there's almost always a personal problem, some family issue. You have feelings; you make mistakes. You're a person.
OK - we like to say how a striker creates space and influences matches in other ways, but let's not pretend: at the end of the season, the best striker everyone talks about is the top scorer.
In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.
What fascinates me about London is its multi-ethnicity, the coexistence of cultures and religions, but I do not see myself living here for very long. It's too big, too much stress, too much of a metropolis.
Fernando Llorente has been very important for me. He gives me a lot of advice; we talk a lot. I will thank Fernando for my entire life because it's hard to find people like him, especially in the world of football.
At Real Madrid, I did heading drills with Cristiano Ronaldo. You see him go up for headers, that spring and power - he is a real beast. At Juventus, I saw Fernando Llorente, how he finds space and directs his headers.
During my time at Juve, I didn't score more than 20 goals a year, but I won every title except the Champions League. I've scored 15 or 16 goals, and I've lifted titles, and other strikers have scored 35 and haven't won anything.
Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, 'How can I miss that?' It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they're not really qualified to judge.
When I was seven or eight, I got a trampoline. My dad used to say to me all the time, 'Come on with the head,' and then pass the ball to me as I jumped. I really think it's helped my heading game because I practiced this all the time with my dad.
Both Atletico and Real Madrid called my dad, but at that time, I wasn't doing too well at school, and they wouldn't let me go until my grades improved. They both called back, and since Atleti was closer to home, I joined their football academy. It was the start of a period where I stopped enjoying football - I lost the love for it.