Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!

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.

A scent of lavender cannot be put into words.

I think I’d rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to.” He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. “I’m not strong enough to do that.

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.