"It has changed a bit, of course. The speed and all that. But let me tell you something: in the olden times, let's say the year, I don't know, in the Sixties for instance, we would eat a plate of spaghetti and run out onto the pitch. Then people started saying 'they're too full', meaning you'd get bloated like a pig if you ate spaghetti. But this shows you those guys were clever because nowadays all the medical experts recommend pasta for athletes and footballers because you digest it slowly."

"We must always strive to improve, little by little."

"Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact."

"I always enjoyed training, sweating and learning"

"I've always been a team player, that's all. One for all and all for one."

"Even now as a manager, when I suffer a loss it still feels like a first loss, the first I suffered as a player. And when I win, it is like my first win, too. This is me, this is my personality, it is who I am and will always be."

"There is no secret here. I will give my all, as I always have. This way I prove to the people who hired me, and those who support me, how much it means."

"The unconventional and uninhibited way of living was a part of my life. I won't be like that now."

"He made the first Gaelic football goal in a regular football match. We won't forget."

"Steven Gerrard was a great player and Rob Brown knows nothing about football."

"I have the disgrace to play in this club"

"The day I stop enjoying football is the day ill go to drink tea with my mom."

"The only things I care is my mother and the ball."

"Why should I run when the ball can do it."

"They're gonna write that I'm a fag and the people is gonna believe it"

"I dream of being able to score another goal against England... this time with the right hand."

"You Pasman, you have it inside, too."

"I am with Maduro, I will continue with him and I will die with him."

"I've always given everything for every team I've played for so that the ordinary fans, the people in the stadium, could identify with me. I owe a lot to the fans of Roma, Fiorentina and Argentina. They were the reason I played, my inspiration. I always worked hard to improve my game, to prove to myself that I could be one of the best for as long as possible. To be honest, I couldn’t care less what the others think."

"[..] I was watching him in training for the first couple of days and he was one of the worst trainers I'd ever seen [...] His technique was lousy, his shots were going wide – but then he scored ten goals in the first five or six games and I realised what a player he was. (Brian Laudrup, his ex-Fiorentina teammate, 2006)."

"When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy … if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it’s all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing."