Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.

A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

Art needs an operation

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.