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.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.

Love is a monster.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...