Transcript · Spanish → English

Respecting Cristiano Ronaldo's Work Ethic

And then, personally, I love Cristiano,

now we're no longer in the Barça-Madrid rivalry, because it always seems that talking about

this is like… Oh no, is Barça going to win?

Yes, maybe, now I'm not there anymore,

I can speak, but Cristiano exemplifies

for all of us who don't have as much quality,

that with hard work you can also compete against the best,

and he exemplified this, so for me, I respect him so much,

even when I was playing, but I couldn't speak because of that,

and I already had the chance to tell him, because it even reached the point

of trying to say hello and he wouldn't greet me, because of all that controversy, yes,

we caused a controversy once, but it never came out, because it was behind the scenes of

the Ballon d'Or ceremony,

but we had a little friction there, where he didn't even greet me, I mean, I greeted everyone,

I went to say hello, and he didn't greet me, because it was being generated outside, Barça and

Madrid were generating all that outside, that I didn't respect Cristiano,

and I was like, what are they saying? I was just at home, what are they saying?

How am I not going to respect a guy who

achieved everything through hard work,

by working his butt off? How am I not going to?

Because I identify with that,

everything I did in my life was based on that, I mean,

if you were to make a comparison,

as a player, I am closer to Cristiano than to Leo,

and I say it's an identification

more with Cristiano because of the fact that the work,

and that's what I did my whole life,

working like an animal to be able to achieve,

to be able to get to where I have reached, it wasn't pure talent,

talent was a percentage, but the biggest percentage was hard work,

and for me, that's what Cristiano does, he has talent, yes, he has talent,

but his hard work is what makes him

compete with Messi and compete with anyone. It's incredible.

It's incredible, exactly,

and how can you not respect one of those? Only if I'm stupid.

But of course, at Madrid it creates that sensitivity.

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Original transcript (Spanish)

Y luego, particularmente, me encanta Cristiano, ahora ya no estamos en el Barça de Madrid, porque siempre parece que hablar de esto es como… Ah no, va a ganar el Barça? Sí, puede, ahora ya no estoy, yo puedo hablar, pero Cristiano ejemplifica

para todos nosotros que no tenemos tanta calidad, que con el trabajo también se puede competir contra los mejores, y él ejemplificó esto, eso para mí, yo lo respeto muchísimo, hasta cuando yo jugaba, pero no podía hablar por eso, y yo tuve oportunidad de decírselo a él ya, porque llegó hasta el momento

de intentar saludar y él no me saludaba, por toda esa polémica, sí, generamos una polémica una vez, pero no salió nunca, porque era bastidor de la entrega del Balón de Oro, pero tuvimos un rifrafe ahí, de que ni me saludó, o sea, saludé a todo el mundo, fui a saludar, y no me saludó, porque estaba generando afuera, el Barça y el

Madrid generaban afuera todo eso, de que no respetaba a Cristiano, yo diciendo, qué están diciendo? Yo he quedado en mi casa, qué están diciendo? Cómo no voy a respetar a un tipo que se lo consiguió todo a base de trabajo, a base de chale huevo? Cómo no voy?

Porque me identifico con esto, todo lo que hice en mi vida fue a base de eso, o sea, si tú hicieras una comparación, yo como jugador me acerco más a Cristiano que a Leo, y yo digo que es una identificación

más con Cristiano por el hecho de que el trabajo, y yo fue lo que hice toda mi vida, trabajar como un animal para poder alcanzar, para poder conseguir llegar donde yo he llegado, no era puro talento, era talento un percentual, pero el más grande percentual era trabajo,

y para mí es lo que hace Cristiano, tiene talento, sí tiene talento, pero su trabajo es lo que hace competir con Messi y competir con cualquiera. Es increíble. Es increíble, exacto, y cómo no va a respetar a uno de esos? Solo si estoy estúpido.

Pero claro, en el Madrid genera esa sensibilidad.

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