Quotes from Clarence Seedorf

If you are lucky, you go to a team like Porto to mature. And if things don't go well for you, others take your place.

When the results start to come your way, the confidence rises, and we start to play better.

I am very satisfied with what I've done in my career and with what I managed to do with Botafogo.

My last game, scoring a goal, was incredible.

I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just - destiny wants you to take another path.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

If a guy has five good games and then starts to go out, drink, sleep late, live the wrong kind of lifestyle, then his performances will always suffer.

I like to take on challenges.

Why does everyone love the Champions League? It's because it's exclusive. Even if you win it, you only play 13 games in that competition in a season.

Scoring goals comes and goes with time, but the most important thing is that we continue creating chances. The entire team must work, and we then have to score goals.

I played over 130 matches, including four finals, so there have been many great moments.

Players must understand that if they go after more lucrative contracts, then they forfeit their chances of playing in the national team.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.

Coaching is not easy.

Bolatelli is an exciting player, but his stupid attitude sometimes attracts attention from the crowd - nothing more, nothing less.

I have been fortunate to work with many great coaches and also in different countries, and I have taken a bit from all of them - Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian football.

We try to bring in the best players for Cameroon: not just best in terms of talent but those who are motivated and who know what it means to play for this nation.

I think that there's still a lot of prejudice going on. I don't really think it's only an issue of football. I think football is a mirror of society.

Who doesn't want to work in the Premier League?

I would love to play in the Premier League; which player wouldn't? I am happy at AC Milan, but never say never.

Madrid is a club with very high demands.

Let's say that the teams I played in were all excellent. I played with many, many great players and incredible teams.

Football can help carve a more diverse world.

Of course African teams are underachieving when you think of what their potential is.