Baseball is a sport that demands respect for tradition and an openness to innovation

Baseball is a sport that celebrates individual excellence within a team framework

I’m sure that I’m a winner person. I’m sure that I win more than lose.

If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

I’ve always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

I’m ready to lose my life if that’s what Portugal needs to win. I’ll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

When my family isn’t alright, I get restless. It just doesn’t seem right to me.

Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I do not exchange my shirt with ASSASSINS

I know who likes football likes me

But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children – all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it’s the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can’t come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That’s why I’m so committed to this work. Later, after you’ve stopped playing, it’s harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It’s important in my football too. When everything is good, I don’t think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well.

I am in the fighting game, I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport, it is my life. I study it, I think about it, all the time. Nothing else matters.

Pain is part of the sport.

I always think street but train sport.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.