I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

We cannot live without our lives

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.