I will always be the first to admit when I have done something wrong.
Arjen Robben
As a team, you always need to show something extra in the Champions League.
Even during a sprint, I can occasionally still accelerate. I am so fit that I can accelerate during a acceleration, like making a new start.
People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.
What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.
The history of football has always thrown up big surprises.
Messi is in a different world. He is the best player in world football, without any doubt.
I have lots of energy, but that doesn't happen like magic. I put in many extra hours in the gym and with the physios.
I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.
The best and most important step of my career was when I moved here - and Louis van Gaal brought me from Madrid to Bayern. It was the best move of my career, and it's thanks to him.
Forwards do a lot of things intuitively.
I don't know if referees look at me differently; you'd have to ask them. I hope everybody gets treated the same, but I know that it doesn't always happen.
David Alaba has a very good left foot. He's scored some good goals and free kicks.
After my debut as a pro for Groningen, I was at Eindhoven for two years.
It's really amazing what Pep Guardiola has done at Man City.
Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised.
The appreciation between Bayern and I has always been there, from both sides. I know what I have at this club, and I always say that.
I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.
In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I could never cut inside and shoot. It was only when I joined Real Madrid and started playing in a more central position, and then on the right wing, that I suddenly realised I had a really dangerous weapon.
If Mourinho loses 4-1, he doesn't sleep well.
You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.
If you never pass or dribble or go on the outside, cutting inside will stop working.
When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.
The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.
I guess my earliest football memories are of playing in the street and also the little pitches at school. I joined the local football team in my village when I was small, but we would play only once or twice a week. I honed my skills just by playing for fun with friends after school.
The Champions League is very difficult - there are so many big teams in Europe, and one bad day, and you can be out.
If you want to achieve something and have results and win competitions at a high level, you have to defend as a team.
Van Gaal is the best coach I've had. We've got a very special relationship.
I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.
When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.
When I came to Chelsea and worked with Mourinho, it was my first time abroad, so that was an important stage for me.
I've been playing football for a while, but Guardiola really made me a better player. I was 29 when I started working with him, so I wasn't very young, but if you see the steps I made thanks to him, it shows you what he is capable of doing. Guardiola didn't just put me on the flanks but in other positions as well.
Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.
A backheel is good if it works, not if it disrespects the opponents.
Players come and go, and that goes for coaches as well.
Munich is a great city. I have lived in many cities in Europe, but I have never felt this comfortable, and my wife and children love it as well.
We have to respect the opponents.
It is important that it - sometimes there are clashes between team-mates. We need each other to tell the truth, and this is not always a positive.
I think I had a positive development at Chelsea. I was very young when I arrived, only 20, and the problem I had was injuries.
I'm a very explosive player and need everything to be right. I started working with an osteopath the last year I was in Madrid and have stayed with him.
I had some very good years at Madrid.
If you're at school, children who play football, you give everything to win... If you don't succeed, that's a huge disappointment. Then it's okay to be sad, but better times are coming.
Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.
Playing United is the sort of thing that really gets the best out of me.
I always want to play. It is important to gain match rhythm.
There's always so much to improve, no matter your age.
I have always said that I do not want to play in the Europa League.
Bayern Munich are a team that absolutely have to play in the Champions League.
I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.
It was a big step for me in the Netherlands: to leave home at the age of 18.
