Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

Is that a professional bread bowl?

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.