RONALDO

I couldn't have got any fatter; I was running out of clothes.

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

I'm only a little interested in politics. But I'm always on top of the news, both in Brazil and abroad.

Paolo Maldini. He was tough, tough, every time we played against each other. And I played against him many times. He's a very good friend.

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

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.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

There are many ways to see football and interpret it.

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

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.

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 was expected to run the same as Roberto Carlos or Cafu, but I just couldn't do it.

I am much more grateful and linked to Real Madrid than to Barcelona.

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

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

I was always a simple guy. I was never one for extravagances.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

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

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.

With his incredible attitude, with his incredible winning mentality, Cristiano Ronaldo is a unique player.

It'd be best if Cristiano Ronaldo retired at Real Madrid and then worked at the club.

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

The two goals in the 2002 final were, for me, the best feeling. It was beautiful.