“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.”

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.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win – so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can’t understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

If you’re playing for five hours you don’t want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn’t been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

I was at Barcelona for many years where I won a lot of things and achieved a lot of dreams. For these reasons it holds a special place in my life.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that’s playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

I am passionate about music – and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn’t true.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

Flowers are the best way to express one’s love and affection to a woman.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.