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.

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.

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.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Ever notice that phrenologists have funny-shaped heads?

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.

I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

I would have shared with the banks my long-term vision and got them involved instead of just going to them when I needed money. I should have got them on my team right from the start.

I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a baby-naming book. Or I would invite somebody over who had a cast on.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.