In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

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.

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.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

A divorce party--that's really better than a wedding party!

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

It's a luxury to be understood.

It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!