The things we love tell us who we are.
We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.
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.
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.
I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better. . . I have wanted the impossible.
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.