When I played for the Basel youth team, I also worked in a sweet shop.

I am the opposite of someone who is not professional.

You have competition all over the world, not only in football, in normal life, too. Everyone fights for his place, but in the end, we have many games to play, and everybody is going to play games.

If I were to leave Stoke, it would have to be a step up for me. Everything would have to be right.

We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.