Quotes

I've played as a striker all my life. To play on the right or the left is always difficult.

I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles - being righteous, having values.

I used to fast during Ramadan because I admired the people fasting around me. What made me convert was that I had that certainty that Islam was for me. I felt this relationship with God, and that enlightened my life. I had that conviction in my heart that that was my religion.

Football is my life and when I am happy on the pitch I am happy off the field as well.

In life, we should explore options outside our comfort zone.

I'm a good crazy. A crazy good guy. Someone who makes the most of life.

In life, you have to weigh everything up, even when they are just decisions about your career.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

The most important thing in life is to know where you come from, and I know where I come from.

My parents gave me a practical example of what life was about, and I won't forget that.

In life, people move on their interests and even more when money is an issue.

I sometimes think that life is a circle. See, I cannot get away from genius. At Barca, I had Messi. At Juve, I have Paulo Dybala. Genius follows me everywhere, I swear.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

I think we always look up to legends and people who not only win but give us a larger than life role model... I think Michael Jordan is this, someone who became bigger than his sport.

I always say that in life, you should embrace those who want to embrace you.

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.