The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

All Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.