Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

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.

When angry, count to Zen.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

All you have to do is be a little bit specific, and all of a sudden, you have your own little niche and people are going to watch.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.