There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

Despair leads to distress.

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

You don't write. You get out of the way.