As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."

Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you