“Obviously, the opinion of the player is always important, because if I...” — Carlos Vela Quote

Obviously, the opinion of the player is always important, because if I am not happy in a new destination it will be difficult to perform well.

I am not a person who loves to watch games and that doesn't mean I don't like soccer. I take advantage to do other things in my free time.

It's always great to know successful people like Canelo, especially those that make our country proud.

I see something that I don't like, I prefer not to participate and say, 'Look, I'll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don't want to be there.'

What people don't understand is that no one is perfect.

Travel, I have belatedly realised, is not just about sightseeing, notching up destinations in a futile, trainspotting way.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.