You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

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.

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.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.