Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.

There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.