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Italian football in the eighties and nineties was the most beautiful league in the world. The hardest, most beautiful of all.
It is more difficult for any coach to work in the Premier League than any other league. You can lose or win against any team.
My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it's one of the first plans that's worked for me.
I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.
Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.
If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.
Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.
If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.
I think my Italy career is over - it's only right they begin a new era without me. Besides, you have to run a lot under Conte!
I think I had a positive development at Chelsea. I was very young when I arrived, only 20, and the problem I had was injuries.
When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.
I'm naturally competitive, and I always want to win and always want to help our team win. So I always want to be on the field.
Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.
What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.
I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
Footballers have a great opportunity to be a good example because the kids want to listen to you and be like you in many ways.
Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.
We are Bayern. We have the highest standards, and always want to win everything, so the Champions League is a very big target.
Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.
The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.
My perfect formation would be 4-3-3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward.
Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.
Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.
I want to go back to college for sure! Who doesn't, right? All your bills are paid for. You're there with all of your friends.
I'm not just about being an ambassador of Christ. I'm here also, talking with friends, being the same person that I always am.
It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.
I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.
When you are a footballer, you will not always play 90 minutes. Sometimes you are not happy, but this is not important for me.
People wrote so negatively about me, but generally, the people who are familiar with football know my strengths and abilities.
Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
Chelsea is an ambitious club and it will always be possible that a coach and the players are competitive at the highest level.
I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them
Why did I choose Arsenal rather than Chelsea? Because it is a club I love, and I thought it would be easier for my adaptation.
I've had an incredible reception at Chelsea. John Terry is an exemplary captain, who has treated me very well since I arrived.
I played for so many years in Barcelona, and I have so many friends there, and a lot of good memories of my time at that club.
I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)
Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.
The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.
It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.
Once everyone gets a taste of one trophy, it could set off an effect. People will get the hunger, and just want more and more.
There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.
To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!
Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything
I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.
Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I'm cleaning the house or making dinner.
I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.