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.

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 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.

Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure.

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.