When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

Would you phone the president of Ghana?

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.