Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

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.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell And by and by my Soul returned to me And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it