You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

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.

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.