Purpose without virtue is vanity.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.

Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger.

By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.