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Leo Messi: "People today focus a lot on statistics, and personally, I don’t really like statistics.

"I don’t think that I must make an assist or score a goal so I can reach a record, or surpass this person or that person.

"I live the game and enjoy it. I like to be decisive and to be very involved in the flow of the match. But I don’t play for that, and I’ve never given it importance.

"Things happened as a natural result, not because I was thinking in my head that I need to make an assist or score a goal to achieve a record or surpass someone. Things simply happened because they happened.”

"My best season of my career? I don't know, it's difficult, it depends on how you look at it.

"There were years when we won everything, reaching the Copa América final with the national team, winning the Champions League with Barcelona.

"It's difficult. In 2012, I scored around 91 goals. I don't play for that, I never cared about it.

"It wasn't in my mind to break a record or surpass someone else. It's hard to choose one year, thankfully I've had many very good ones."