After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.