Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.

If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me! (on Valeri Bojinov)

I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. (on his former club CSKA Sofia)

...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

Don’t try to understand consciousness. Just try to be deeply conscious and it will reveal its secret to you.

People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'

If you can't look in the mirror and genuinely love 100% of what you see, how can you possibly say "i love you" to someone else.

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.

Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.