"I am not a politician. I am a football player."

"No. Reporters at press conferences would always ask me about that, and I would tell them, 'Listen, I don't need to be captain. If we have another player as captain, then there are two leaders in the g…"

"Football is a beautiful game. It is a game of joy."

"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."

"How can you make a comparison between a guy [Cristiano Ronaldo] who heads the ball well, shoots with the left, shoots with the right and another [Lionel Messi] who only shoots with one leg, only has o…"