One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough

Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.