I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

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.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth called time.

Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

New Year's Eve always terrifies me.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

New York is who I am.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.