“I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.”

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I love pets, especially dogs.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

You’d be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Often, you are forced to keep things simpl

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions.

For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.

I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

All lying – you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there’s a calamity.

I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.

I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.