I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you.

Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.