If I’m watching my son play soccer, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m going to a school concert, that’s what I’m doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I’m doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that’s what I’m doing.

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.

Heading is still a vital part of being a striker, and it isn’t about being the biggest player. Heading the ball is about timing, so work on that in training.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age.

Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.

We created some good chances when we were 1-0 up, maybe we dropped a little too deep and we didn’t get enough pressure on the ball, there’s a lot we could have done better.

To go out at Wembley and score is what you dream about as a kid.

When teams are dropping off, it’s difficult, especially as a striker. You always have two center-halves behind you and maybe a sitting midfielder as well. It’s a bit more difficult creating chances.

I’d love to be captain of Tottenham and hopefully England as well.

I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out.

I am a sporty person who loves to go to the gym, train, play football.

If you don’t believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master.

I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there’s a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.

My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That’s how I see football – fun and dynamic – and this goes beyond me; it’s a characteristic of Brazilian football.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shishkabobs.

I made sacrifices leaving Argentina, leaving my family to begin a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for soccer, to achieve my dream

I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it

It doesn’t matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training.

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

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.