Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

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.

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.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Be a fountain of peace to find peace everywhere.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.