Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - too sad story. This book is very good and sad

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.

We live in a country where power changes hands cyclically, because everybody in power screws up at some point, or the voters get fickle and just want a change.