I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

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.

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.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

To model the path of love, is to model the representation of God in your life.

Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.