“Cristiano Ronaldo was my hero.”

“I just want to convert and create chances as well.”

“I'm close to the Brazilians, especially Fabinho because of the language, but I also have a good relationship with Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson.”

“I was always the smallest guy on the pitch, that's never affected me, I'm used to it.”

“Football is always a challenge between us to play in the games, to face different challenges as well.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”