Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

The effective use of time is the best-kept secret of those who have created a successful life and continue to experience it every day.

Whether you are aged or weak, you can still serve the Lord

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.