If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

Football lost its excitement for me.