Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

The huntsman took pity on her and said, "Run away into the woods, child, and never come back.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.