Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

In England, football is important for everybody.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

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.