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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.