...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.

If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me! (on Valeri Bojinov)

I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. (on his former club CSKA Sofia)

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

You have so many relationship-worthy qualities. Either the guys around here are complete idiots or you’ve never shown them the real you.

Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate

The cost of living is increasing arithmetically but the cost of "Dying" is increasing exponentially.......

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.