Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

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.

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.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.

The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.