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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.
I have reached a level where I can compete with great players. I do not feel inferior to anybody.
There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.
It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.
My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.
He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.
You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing.
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.
What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.
I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
I am very satisfied with what I've done in my career and with what I managed to do with Botafogo.
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.
If Lukaku is not as good as others with his first touch, then give him a ball that he can handle.
I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.
If you play in the Champions League, it's a very special feeling, there's a different atmosphere.
Everyone knows that I had a lot of good coaches but one person was very important: Jupp Heynckes.
When you've been Bayern for so long and it's your second home, moving away from here is not easy.
Every year, Messi seems to reach his limit, but he always ends up exceeding that. He is the best.
I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.
I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.
I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.
Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
If I'm on the bench in a Premier League game, I'm thinking, 'What can I do coming off the bench?'
In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.
In Manchester, people don't recognise me that much and tend to treat me in a more respectful way.
I was always proud, and still am, to wear the BVB jersey and to be part of this exceptional team.
When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.
At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.
Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.
I've never said I didn't want to manage a big team. I've never had that dream - that's different.
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.
A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.
This moment,which we are living right now will pass too. We have to enjoy, enjoy all that we can.
I do not like to put one title above the other. Every competition I contest and win is important.
I did very little at Real Madrid. I would have liked to do much more but I didn't get the chance.
If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].