I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.