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.

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

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

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

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.

If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.

memories brings some past that dealt with the pain and yet we choose to embrace it as if we have a lot to gain.

Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.