When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

Most important is be a good man.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.