Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

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.

Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion.

Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

Find a way to say yes to things.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.