I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

The rotation system at Bayern makes it nearly impossible to play week after week, even when you're putting in some top performances.

As a player if you win 10 in a row and you lose one, or you lose 10 in a row, you are still going to be angry when you lose. It's the nature of the game.

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

If a luxury player is a player who scores and assists and has good stats, then I'm happy to be a luxury player.

I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.

I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

My first match lasted 10 seconds, and I lost.

I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.

For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it's difficult to be successful without that because that's where you have to come from if you're really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it's more a sort of a universal energy.

Experimentation is a big part of how you find the best of the best.

Life wasn't good, but I could not walk away from something I love. I had a difficult life to face, but I had to try to keep dealing with the situation with the help of my family, friends, and training partners and manager.