I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Peace is not the absence of warbut the presence of love and care

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

You too are a work of art.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.