I love football, adore it.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

The fear of losing makes you better because it stops you cruising.

Before I go up against the best forwards in the world - Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar - I study their strengths and weaknesses like an obsession, and then I plan how I am going to attack. My goal is to show the world that Dani Alves is on the same level.

When I was 18, I moved across the ocean just for the opportunity to play for a club that played against Barcelona. So to have the honour of playing for Barca? It was incredible.

I sometimes think that life is a circle. See, I cannot get away from genius. At Barca, I had Messi. At Juve, I have Paulo Dybala. Genius follows me everywhere, I swear.

Barcelona focus a lot on what Barcelona does and not on what others are going to do. It creates a different way of working. Of course we studied our opponents to see their weak points and their strong points, but 70 per cent of the time, it was about us.

English football is a type of football which excites me a lot.

What's football for? To win. And to win, you have to score more.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Jordan, and I love the game of basketball.

I think we always look up to legends and people who not only win but give us a larger than life role model... I think Michael Jordan is this, someone who became bigger than his sport.

Yes, I love shoes and especially Jordans; they're always beautiful.

Anytime someone is wearing Jordan, you have to respect!

I am a player who finds it easy to adapt to the circumstances, and I don't think I would have had a problem adapting to England.

I like attacking football, but that's not the only thing the game's about.

I love English football. I love the way people live it so intensely.

I watch loads of football; whenever I am not playing, I am at home watching matches, including the English league.

When you have experienced players, you don't tremble when it comes to playing in a hostile atmosphere or under pressure.

A player cannot rely only on his name to make a difference but also has to work hard and make things happen on the pitch.

I think Neymar is one of the few players who was touched by God when he was born, and He said, 'You will be thee player.'

I respect people with high levels of self-esteem.

If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it's much better.

In life, we should explore options outside our comfort zone.

I always have the desire for a new challenge.

I always say that in life, you should embrace those who want to embrace you.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.