I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.
Do I like most footballers? Not really. Joe Hart, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Joleon Lescott, Gabby Agbonlahor and a group of the guys at Villa - good people.
Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
There are not many number fives but the best are Busquets, Tiago, Gabi... I also learn a lot from Xabi Alonso. He is also among the top.
All of Europe's biggest clubs place the Champions' League as their top priority these days but only one of us can lift the trophy. The domestic league titles are still crucial of course, but I think most players will tell you the Champions' League is the one they want to win most of all.
Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.
I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.
I don't like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it's the biggest whatever in the World, look, they drink tea everywhere too; they're pussies, you understand? I want some coffee.
I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.
I believe that the Premier League is the best league in the world, and having played in the Premier League for such a long time, it is to my advantage, and I know what to expect.
I admire the Premier League for the quality and style of football.
It would be good to play in the Premier League.
If I could choose anywhere in Brazil, the club I'd play for is Palmeiras.
I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.
I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.
U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.
I have watched the Premier League for a long time. There is so much quality, and it is such an exciting league. Of course, it is nice to think I might play in it.
Neymar and Hazard are amazing talents, but the player who gave me most trophies was Diego Costa.
Stephen Ireland is one of the most talented players I have seen, and Nigel de Jong is doing really well. He fights for his team all over the pitch, and he has a lot of character.
I've met lots of footballers like Alan Shearer, David Beckham, and Steven Gerrard. I don't really get starstruck because I just think they're another footballer like me; they just get paid a lot more.
