I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

If you take something then take only the best of all.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.