There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

Until we begin to live for people and stop living for self, we have not started living, we just exist.

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Is not all creation a transgression?

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.