Ronaldo

“There are many ways to see football and interpret it.”

“I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.”

“I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing.”

“The national team is part of my life. I have an incredible history, of many conquests and also many defeats. But to play for Brazil, I have to have a club and play well. I'm not going to be picked on my past or because of my sponsor, as many have said.”

“I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.”

“Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone, I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He's going to have to tell me everything.”

“I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.”

“Barcelona has always had issues with Brazilian players: Neymar, Romario, Ronaldinho, and me. We were all treated badly by the club in the end, despite all our contributions and dedication.”

“Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.”

“Zico was my idol. He was a very good player from Flamengo, and I was a Flamengo supporter from Rio de Janeiro. I was always looking for him and saying I want to be like him. He's my big hero.”

“I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.”

“I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.”

“Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.”

“To go to a World Cup is a dream come true, and I can claim to have experienced that four times.”

“Just a tiny bit of effort leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I just go up the stairs to my room, and I feel tired.”

“At Real Madrid, there will always be people who score goals. They are a team and not a single player, no matter how much one appears more than another.”

“I don't think I would have any problem at all playing in England. I'd love it.”

“In Spain, the game's a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don't play football.”

“I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.”

“The best team I played in was the Brazilian one in 2002; we felt that we could always score. It was a team without any vanity - or individuals.”