Nobody thought Real Madrid could win three Champions Leagues on the trot, and they've done it.
What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.
My two daughters were born in Madrid, I won three Champions Leagues and three La Liga titles as well.
If you reach the Champions League semifinals three times in a row that speaks for itself. To win this competition isn't easy.
In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that's not the case at all. I'm nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much - Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.
I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy fight, even if you win in 30 seconds, that only means you were able to execute your strategy correctly and induced your opponent to make a mistake. Those are the champions. That's why they are the champions.
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
It's not easy to win the Champions League.
To be able to compete in a Champions League final, to win it with Real Madrid and to score was incredible and exciting.
Del Bosque was axed by Madrid for failing to retain the Champions League in 2003 but his sacking triggered the start of a spell when they won nothing for four years and failed to get beyond the Champions League's last 16.
To win the Champions League and possibly the Euros in the same season would be incredible, a feat achieved by very few.
I do not think it is very easy to win away from home in the Champions League.
I've played three seasons at Real Madrid; I've given my all. I've scored goals, I've won two leagues, and that's not easy.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
I always win. I think, one season with Lazio, we didn't win anything, but our premier target was to take the Champions League place, and we got into the Champions League.