I have changed quite a lot since I came to Milan and I think I have become a more all-round footballer.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

It's football. There's emotions.

Football is a game, and people have to be cunning.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

There was a point in my life where I had enough of football.

You can't run a football club as if it was a supermarket.

I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.

O.K., my family isn't, like, stupid-wealthy. But I'm coming from a place where if football doesn't work out, I don't have to work at McDonald's.

Being in a football environment is where I'm most comfortable. I only feel excited and motivated when it comes to crucial, difficult, important matches.

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

It's difficult to get away from the media, from social media. It's a big thing in society and in football, in particular.

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.

I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not.

When Bale first started at Tottenham, they were struggling to win whenever he played at left-back, but it is unbelievable how quickly things can change in football.

I coach defending an awful lot but I don't think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs.

Football is the total team game.