When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.