What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

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

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.