When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

Every experience makes you a man.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.