If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

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