Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser

No one player is as good as the sum of a team

I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat.

Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that

I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.

A 0-0 is like a Sunday without sun.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

Getting married is easy, but divorce is very difficult

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.

It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.