100 Quotes by Raul

Every season has its bad patches.

It's not for me to give anybody advice about their private life.

I was close to joining Seattle Sounders when I left Schalke in 2012, but we decided to go to Qatar first.

What Cristiano has been doing is huge, but Madrid have a great team with players who can still offer more. The important things is that they keep working as a unit.

When I left Real, I left a great club but joined a great club.

I speak with a lot of players who have stopped playing and they go to the gym for two hours a day and say 'now I run 10km a day.' When they were still playing they would complain about running for 10 minutes!

A champion's thirst for titles should be insatiable.

I don't think Madrid would be Madrid without Barcelona and vice versa.

If you are lucky enough to avoid serious injuries then the body goes on; it's the mind that gives in. And it's the mind that you need to enable you to suffer pre-season every year.