The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle

One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Roman Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

In my view, fitness training isn't that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive edge when just sprinting. The matches are all hard-fought, too.

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.

Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life.

Anyone can life to you face, and you would believe them because you trusted them.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

I seek the substantial in life.

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.