“I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.”

We don’t even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn’t give up and continued to play football.

I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

Everything you see comes from inside. People don’t see it but inside the dressing room we laugh and joke a lot so it’s not just for the cameras. It’s the way things are off the pitch too. We are happy for each other, it is all natural.

Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

I’m paying for a mistake I made.

At first I didn’t think I was going to fit into Barcelona’s way of playing. There was a lot of tiki-taka and I was thinking that without a lot of space to play in, I’d find it more difficult. I worried about that.

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

You just can’t believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

I swear on my children’s lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone’s records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that’s my job as a forward.

That’s the mentality – don’t just play it, win it.

There is always a chance to get even and I’m proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That’s what makes me most content.

I’m not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it’s only going to affect results.

In the Premier League you never really know what is going to happen. There is very little between the teams.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Yoga isn’t just about the body, it’s also about the mind and it’s a technique that has really helped me.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.

Sometimes I’m so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.