I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

Racism springs from ignorance.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.