I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

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.

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.

I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.