I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Maybe they hate me because I’m too good!
After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That’s how highly they rated him.
Goals are only important if they win games.
I’m not worried. My time will come.
You will go through tough times, it’s about getting through them.
Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don’t want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful – and that’s it, basically. That’s why professional football exists.
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.
My heroes were always soccer players.
If you’re in the penalty area and don’t know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we’ll discuss the options later.
If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.