I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

When you're surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

Of course it's good when you win the Champions League, the league, the golden boot. But when you win something for your country it's completely different.

I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children - all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it's the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can't come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That's why I'm so committed to this work. Later, after you've stopped playing, it's harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well