My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past.

We used to have championships in the streets with my friends, and whoever scored a goal was the happiest boy in the world. Now, every time that I score, I go back to being a child: the happiness of scoring a goal is unexplainable.

The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.

I prefer games with many goals.

For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.