“Being a bit famous now gives me the opportunity to help people who really need it, especially children.”

When the year starts, the objective is to win with all the team, personal records are secondary.

When my son will be born, my first goal will be for him. The rest, will be as always for my grandmother.

You have got to love the game.

Never give up. Never stop chasing your dreams.

Creativity is the answer.

A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.

I am successful because I made sacrifices for success.

I don’t look at records, that’s not why I’m playing the game. Goals, of course. Every player in my position wants to score goals.

I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.

For the children. For the brave youngsters. For their smiles. We remain committed to young cancer sufferers and continue to support the investigation efforts into this illness in young people:

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Football will never forget your smile.

If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Fucked day but you have to get up and continue. This is just starting.

Together we can make it possible.

When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

I didn’t want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us – I was the middle child – and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

Grief is a species of idleness.

My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.