I'm going to Inter to see if they will let me play a bit of football.

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.

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what.

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I'd left your room where I was watching you sleep...Yes that would be quite the ice breaker.