I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.