𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

who's the best player in the world ever no me in my mind I'm always the best I don't care what the people thinking what they say in my mind not just this year but always I'm always the best I'm always going to say that because you I think we have to thinking we are the best in our area so in my area I think I'm the best do you think what makes you different to the others to the next rung on the ladder if you like a very good players is the dedication level that you

put in I think I'm good but I think my main strength it's my mind I think uh it's my strongest point it's my mind P the the numbers they don't like if you see during the last 15 years my my level is always kind of the same so effort dedication work hard because the time is not enough anymore and if you're not dedicated 100% not going to reach the level that you want for example you arrive home you had a lunch you do with a quick nap and you wake up you play with your kyss

it's part of my sacrifice my obsession to win to have success you know when I mean when I say success it's I work for that Talent is not enough you have to I dedicate myself so much that this is part of me records is part of me I don't follow the records the records follow me which is is different are you addicted to winning yes I am I'm addicted to the success that's the thing that really drives you yes I think so and I think it's not something bad I think it's good motivate me and

I have to do I have to go to the gym at least 30 40 minutes but this will make the difference in the end of the day you understand if you you not do it that that work you miss one the next day if you it's two sessions that you lost and I know in the end of the day in the hand they're going to make a huge difference this is why I'm 34 and I look 28 I remember when I was 18 192s I'm always look to see the best players Mr Roy Ferdinand Roy

King and uh gigs this is why I have the successful that I have in levity because I take care of my body my mentality my head because I see these guys and I learn from them when you try and give advice to these younger players what what do you say to them what do you what do you try and guide them to be like I think the best advice I'm not the kind of guys to like to give advice I prer to be as example yes because I'm I'm a example I'm there every morning and

doing the same stuff I'm probably the first ones to arrive and the last ones to to go out I think uh the the details speak for itself so mentioned a few interesting words there system which is on the page you also said mentality how crucial is that can you be successful if the mentality isn't right impossible I think it's the main point I I'm always speak with my my friends and I and we have the sh about football the games and they all speak about the system but the system is is useful if the mentality

it's it's not there in a pitch uh this is why I say we have long way to improve because for me the most important things is for you to look yourself and say I can do it better I can I can tell I can help the team uh much much [Music] more the system is important yes is important everything is important the small details make the huge difference in the end of the day but for me the most important thing is the mentality for you to be help the team the right mentality uh selft talk

positive I think it's all the details depend of you not the coaches the fans the Press depends of you if you are proud of yourself and you have some dignity I think you you have to do it much more this is why I'm as people know I'm a challenge person I like to you know to challenge first of all myself not I think it's the most important it's great uh this has given me motivation to to still work hard and better in my job but I have to say uh to be in my shoes is

not easy uh but I'm not I'm not complaining I just I just want to say that I'm feel happy uh all this happened because the reason the reason is I'm unbelievable inside the pitch this is why the people have so much interesting on me the league to win the league it's a marathon it's not a Sprint 100 met Sprint you have to be consistent the best players always follow the best players they want to be uh in the top of the the game because they are the ones they are there you know you cannot rest

or sleep because the other one can pass you of course we fight with everyone with the Neymar with Messi with levandowski with iguin you know with the top of the best players in the world so comparations is healthy and we fight you know to be the best this is why it's my my main point it's my motivation is to be better than them than them here after year in my opinion the the main point is they should coming from inside you you should be is there anything that lonel Messi is better than you ask it's

opinions I respect the opinions maybe in your opinion m is better than me but in my mind I'm better than him it's so simple is that rivalry a good thing for me rival don't exist the means of this world is not uh don't exist Rivals is in a war this is it we have a rivals in football no it's it's just a game H not just in the games I'm in a train I'm like that in a home with my sisters with my mom with my nephews I'm always H try to competitive hard and try

to win uh I'm like that you know I'm not I'm not I never change and because I like I like this I like what I do I like my life I'm happy person when I'm 12 years old most of the people told me Christian you are very very good talent player but you are very skinny very slim and I put it in my mind the body we can improve you can improve you got gym dedication and not work you can improve so I improv myself you have to work I try to do it almost every

day this is why I'm in a top level many many years because I do it extra outside the pitch cuz I'm I really like to put myself in a pressure to see what I can can can do maybe sometimes I agree maybe I have bad image in a pitch because I'm too serious I take Serious but if you really know me if you are my friend if you live inside my house if you share the day with me you will know that I hate to L the people who call me arrogant most of them I

like you know one day to sit with them and to have a you know a shot with them to see which way they see that I am arrogant because they I think they have to to sit with me to speak with me to know who is real Cristiano what's your secret cuz you're showing no signs of slowing down no secrets don't exist Secrets the secret is dedication and hard work you know to be able to to work 100% all the time this is if exist words it's this is is my secret is the last years

as a business I saw many many things that I'm disappointing the passion for the game still intact but in the same way I say I saw other things as well which is is surpris me but in the same way uh it's part of the business because if you see the world how it is in the moment it's it's all business everyone take on itself everyone they are more individual listen you have one game after after 3 4 days you have being a national team preparation for the World Cup it's hard sometimes you have to sell

everything and be with your family take the best decisions and in this summer I didn't feel comfortable I feel uncomfortable the way they treat me especially the thepress they doubt about me the professional that I am it's impossible to be 21 in the top of the game if you're not professional they they they doubt about me which is make me feel very very very sad because in my life I'm always one of the best professional this is why I still playing the high level I'm always say it's it's all package you know first of all

it's the talent helps a lot of course but of course the ethic of work you have to put in your mind ethic of work when you are professional so and um of course my dreaming coming true I I was professional I play in the best clubs in the world I won the most important trophies so I'm glad to be in this position but of course this is not coming from the sky I dedicate myself and I'm working hard and this is why the goals and all the achievements that I get coming from dedication and hardart

work in the beginning when I was uh young very young I did a lot and uh do extra trainings to improve my you know my skills the dribblings and everything but uh you know I think you're working well because you know I'm what what I am today is started from from that moment that I that that I did the weights in my feets and jumping and do dribblings and I take it off and I feel more faster so was was funny and I remember so good and I'm happy to to have this memory um what

I did the last let's say 15 years so it's good it's good Improvement so this is what I try to do to be to be good to be in a good shape and uh try to enjoy uh the people this is what I love to do I have to improve and I'm I want to improve and I see myself to do it when I'm retired to speak from millions of people advices how to be a professional player how to maintain your longevity how I'm not psycholog but I passed through many many things and I can

you know above all how to win how to win which is the most important I think that's what it's all about I have experience to I can help many many people in that way if they want my help I want listen to it right for sure especially the young people I want to be with the young people to speak with them not only for them but for the Fathers as well to put them in a in a right spot I see football now as a business to be honest I don't understand they treat you they

treat you players like a piece of meat I say yes you say everything it's true when they want you when they they they they count with you they give you everything when they don't they try to to make a hard life to you I see football I'm always say it was the uh toughest time in my life it was when I left my family with 11 uh years old to live in a different world which is Lisbon in the same country but it look like it's a different part of the world I Was Cry almost

every day to miss my family but I'm not I'm not regret uh because it was probably the more int more intense moments in my life that I that live through so without sacrifice canot win nothing so I did a unbelievable sacrifice my family too and I think it was I think I I have I did a good option it's stupid question when the people say they are not the same nobody is the same day by day we're getting old everyone of us you understand it's normal you have to adapt and I think nobody in this

game have this brain that adapt with his age I'm not I'm not going to be coy to say that I'm the same that when I as 20 of course no but I'm adapt and I be smart to know my strength what I'm good to do and I'm still playing the high level and I score goals and I will continue to score goals if my mind is clear and happy and if the people surround me that help me to be successful player especially the coach the president directives but when you feel that the energy don't go

surround you it's difficult you to be yourself which is happened this is what's happened with me when I arrive in Manchester United I always be available to help the team to do the good things to put in a right spot to compete with the best teams but award to advice to the club because the trophies that I won individual and Collective I think I can help a lot but when the infrastructure is not good they criticize me when I don't speak of course when I'm going to speak they criticize me even more but it's something

that I can I can deal with that uh I know I'm going to disappointing a few people maybe I'm going to make happy a few people but it is what it is the life is it's completely difficult we have obstacles in our lives and um I will keep running to fight against the people who don't believe me and the life is a challenge and I want to people the people that they are wrong nobody's perfect episodes in the life we all have uh is part of the human being it's part of me to be a

human being and father as well I always will commit a mistakes but I don't know it's hard to tell right now what's going to happen in the World Cup because my focus is always for the World Cup for the Portugal national proud of yourself and look in the mirror and say listen I give everything and I think we have to believe on that if not it will be will be a a nightmare sure I mean in history of football what I did uh and what I'm continue to do but one of the best player in

history for me the number one in history but for some fans the number one for another one the second doesn't matter I know I'm in EAS of football one of the greatest ever when you have a tombstone when you die and you have your own Tombstone okay and it says here lies Cristiano Ronaldo how would you like to be remembered as a man you can write your own to number one not number seven number one you see in the end for you it's all about being number one isn't it that's really what drives you you

don't want to be second no you don't want to be third you want I don't know this number I don't know that number