The work is intense. You have to calculate a great deal very quickly which requires football intelligence and real concentration. Part of my role is to shuttle between the defense and the attacking lines to make sure that the ball circulates well and quickly.Collection: Intelligence
The impact of Luis Enrique has been very positive. He has very clear ideas about football and we've absorbed them.Collection: Positive
Oriol Romeu is very strong and doesn't lose possession much. He's a very complete player and makes good cover.
It's great playing alongside Xavi and Iniesta because you know that you're always going to get the ball cleanly from them.
I don't score many goals or do much dribbling, but I still feel very much an important part of the team.
It's very difficult to reach World Cup and Champions League finals and I want to experience those things again.
On a tactical level the defensive midfielder in a 4-3-3 formation is just about the most demanding position there is.
Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.
I've always said that I won't be a Barcelona player for 20 years with a secondary role. The moment that I feel my ambition is fading or that I am not able to deliver physically, I will step aside and leave feeling privileged and content of what I gave to the club.
You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.
If it was up to me, I'd get rid of Twitter to stop the fake profiles and people saying and doing what they want.
It's Champions League nights when our fans roar us on even more, lose their voices, and we really notice it. That's what the Champions League means to me.
Stadiums are full, pitches are good, the press is different, people are different, the football culture is different. Everyone talks highly of England and I'd like to experience it one day. You see more space, more opportunity to enjoy your football. It's more physical, more intense, but I think I'd be comfortable.
If there's a problem, I prefer to have to swallow that myself than force a team-mate to do so. I think about them because in my position that is what your job consists of.
In personal terms, Ibra is a great guy. He's a serious guy, who makes fun of you when you least expect it.
I have always said there are just two people who could make me change my decision to stay at Barcelona. One of those two people is my wife.
As kids we'd be forever shooting at dad and I started as a striker, but I eventually became a pivote, the position I like most and best suits my characteristics.
Figo was my hero. Then he joined Madrid. Barca fans hated him for that. It was impossible for him to be a hero any more, but now that I'm a professional, I see things differently.
Players can't really control where they go, can't control what a coach thinks of them or if a club wants to sell them.