We have to remember, Mourinho worked at Barcelona. He has good memories of Barcelona. The club did well when he was here.

Players are sometimes sad, sometimes happy during their sporting career.

If someone is quite tall, the people will sing songs about his height. We don't have to overreact. You just have to do your job.

He's an incredible person. Messi is not simply a uniquely talented footballer. He's also strong mentally, very bright, and exceptionally dedicated to his job. Personally speaking, I enjoy watching him play, and I'm deeply proud of him and what he has achieved. Quite simply, he's the best.

I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo.

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader offering to take each character's side every few pages.

My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.