Quotes from James Rodriguez

I always idolized Zidane.

I basically live for the game. You constantly have to train yourself and take care of your well-being - your mind and your body. In the morning, I usually train. In the afternoon, I do everything I need to do in order to remain physically healthy. Basically, that is my entire day until about 6 or 7 P.M.

I only try to play good soccer.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.

I think it's something great to win the Champions League with Madrid; it's something special to be at a club that wants to win something, and I hope we can win it again.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

I would love to play in Spain. It would be a dream to play there, as we are talking about the best league in the world.

It's really flattering to know that a club of Real Madrid's stature is interested in me.

It was always my dream to play for Real Madrid, and I'm going to go on living it because I'm staying.

Some people think that your life changes for the worse when you become a father, but on the contrary, when my daughter was born, she brought light and joy into my life.

I try to improve every day so that things go well. You must keep training strongly every day.

To be alongside great stars is something really special. I hope I can get better, bit by bit.

Any player would want to be involved in games against Argentina.

The Bundesliga is very attractive, and I always watched Bayern games as a kid because it's a very big club.

You have to go to your limit to progress.