It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

That's the mentality - don't just play it, win it.

I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.

We don't even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn't give up and continued to play football

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

I'm paying for a mistake I made

In the Premier League you never really know what is going to happen. There is very little between the teams.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

Fear of failure leads to failure.