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

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.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain’t satisfied until he rules everything.