I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

Dreams do come true, but first you must dream.

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.