Quotes About Desire

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

As a footballer, you still have to dream.

Every footballer wants to be in a starting position on the pitch.

If I had the choice I'd be a boxer or a footballer.

For a footballer, not playing is like a fish not being in the water.

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

I never forbid myself anything.

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.

The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.