Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.