It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

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.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

Some relationships need an intermission while some require an ending.

Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

If God wants it, it will happen.

My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.

I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.