But what club wouldn't welcome the chance to strengthen their side, what club would turn down the resources Chelsea have?

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

Allow your pain to fuel your purpose. Some of the greatest opportunities you will ever experience in life will come from the greatest pain you have experienced in your life.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.