“I am ugly but what I do have is charm.”

My heroes were always soccer players.

Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it’s widely followed in Brazil.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, It doesn’t happen to you very often in your career.

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It’s played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player’s control.

I helped Messi and I know he will do the same with Neymar.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

It doesnt change much for me really and my motivation remains the same – to create a beautiful future with Barcelona, winning many titles.

Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.

I am very pleased it has all been resolved. I wanted to stay at the club and they wanted me too, there was never a problem. There were only a few small matters to sort out.

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

No matter who you are it’s the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play – where you can’t see a way through.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.

The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.