Scoring a goal is an explosion of feelings. It's there immediately - bam! Before you kick the ball, you feel like you're 200 kilos. Then the ball leaves your foot, goes through the air and ripples the net. And for that moment, you're weightless.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it's misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

As a young player, national duty always felt kind of like... a duty. It was always there, it was normal, it was part of the job.

I just stand there up front and score the goals, because that's my job.

Some people say there is a beauty about defending. Beauty is nice, but the most important thing is success.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.