Quotes from Pedro

I played for so many years in Barcelona, and I have so many friends there, and a lot of good memories of my time at that club.

I had 11 or 12 years in Barcelona, my family is there and also many friends. The fans loved me, I felt highly valued throughout the club and it is always hard to leave the club of your dreams.

When a coach trusts you enough to take you from the youth team and put you into the first team, one of the best teams in the world, it's not easy.

Leo Messi is the best player in the world for me, but look at the others that have been at Barcelona.

Messi is a player with great ambition.

Messi is the best player in the world, but he's not invincible.

If you are a big player you will always have a lot of pressure on you. It's the same for Eden, just as it is for Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo.

To me, Messi is better than Maradona. I play with him, I see him every day, and to me he is the best.

How do we stop Messi? I don't know.

A change is always difficult for a player and his family. You are starting from zero and you have to adapt to a new league.

I think it is always difficult for every manager, when you arrive with good motivation and ambition. It's not just in the Chelsea dressing-room. For all coaches, it's difficult.

I have watched many Premier League games and they look very different to the Spanish game, particularly much faster.

It's always complicated to play for Barca. Each year I have had to fight for a spot.

In 2007, Barca B were demoted from the Tercera to the Cuarta Division and I was among the players who wanted to leave. Then Guardiola arrived and he wanted to play with wingers that were spread out across the pitch and he gave me an opportunity.

The atmosphere in the Premier League is fantastic, the stadiums are always full and it's an attractive league for spectators.

I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn't always time, even if it's sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.

Today's prime educational objective must be to form men-and-women-for-others who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors.

I train every day to be a starter.

The objective is to help my team-mates, the more minutes on the pitch and the more games I play, the better.

If I have children, and they were supporters of Madrid, it would be very unlucky, but they would be brought up knowing about Barcelona.

Both at Barca and the Spanish national team we know that the best way to win is by sticking to our philosophy.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

I would love to win the Premier League because it's the strongest league in the world.

Sergio Ramos is very good. I know him very well: great defender, great with the ball. Van Dijk is also the same: so strong, very good in the air, scores goals. Two big players.