You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.
When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.
I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.
I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.
I apologize for nothing.
Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.
I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.
When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.
We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.
Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.
Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.
It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.
My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
