Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?
I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.
The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.
It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.
You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.
There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.
The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.
Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.
If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
