"Playing for the national team is always an honour. We must make the most of every opportunity."
"I'm a striker; my job is to score goals."
"I'm willing to play any position."
"Whatever position I play, I will do the best I can."
"Sometimes football is not just."
"I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that."
"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."
"My wife would like to live in Spain; I'd like to live in Italy."
"I should never have left Italy and Juve."
"I really enjoy London."
"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 grew up at Real Madrid and played there a long time."
"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."
"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."
"Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through."
"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."
"I have nothing to prove to anyone."
"I am ambitious and hungry to succeed."
"For Spain, the more I play, the more goals I score, the more chance I have of making the World Cup and starting games."
"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."
"I'd like to play in every game, like everybody else."
"You always want to contribute wherever you are."
"I always want to go out and score, but there are times when you can't."
"I don't think about scoring more goals than a team-mate, only to score."
"Sometimes you have to mature."
