The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Love is the only future God offers.

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.