If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. . . . being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.
In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose
You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.
You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.
Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
The good thing about coming over to the UK is that I can get some rest.