Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

Money is good, love is wealth.

And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.

I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.