My heroes were always soccer players.

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.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

A businessman who stops advertising to save money is like a foolish who stops a clock to save time.

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.