“We’ve had to handle defeat many times, and you can’t drawn any conclusions.”

Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.

There is no bigger motivation than playing in a UEFA Champions League final.

We need the right attitude and the right motivation – that can decide the match above everything else.

I know the English fans will treat players as they deserve, and I’m not worried about that in the slightest.

You have to maintain a sense of unity – a good atmosphere where everyone feels happy is one of the keys to success, and that’s something you shouldn’t lose.

I think of myself as a great player, but the fans have to decide whether that’s true.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

It’s up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

Disrespect is bad for the atmosphere around a team.

I don’t care whether I play on the right or in the centre. All I want is for the coach to have faith in me.

Every day, I wake up eager to learn new things, and I am grateful to Mourinho for that.

Whenever we lose, it is a sad day.

I keep my opinions to myself. I’ve always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

It is good to have competition.

I would love to win the Ballon d’Or, but honestly, I’m not even thinking about it.

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality

Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

If any harm is to come to Turkey’s border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened.

Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.