There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

We are playing at home, with full stadiums and passionate fans. It will be very special moment for me.

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

In England everyone puts a lot of pressure on you when you have cost a lot of money.

I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!

To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love.

A mind is like a puzzle

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.