The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.