I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

Hello, it's a dream for me to play for Real Madrid. Thank you for the great welcome. Go Madrid!

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

Every kid's dream is to play in the Champions League and to win it. To actually have achieved that was an amazing feeling.

I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

With positive mind-set, you can graciously withstand the uncertainties of life.

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live and it's phenomenally powerful.

Once your vision is clarified and stated, do not look back

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.