Lionel Messi on his interview with Zane Lowe on his tactical evolution and reading the game: "I cannot foresee, but I can observe the game... see where we can cause damage, or be damaged ourselves."
"As the number ten, as the link player, you get to participate in a lot of different movement on the field. How do you see the game when you're on the field? People say that you're able to see ahead of the game itself. Do you identify with that statement?"
"My playing style changed throughout my whole career. At the beginning I started playing on the wings and then I played toward the center, at times I had a lot of freedom and moved 'wherever I wanted', in quotes."
"I always try to generate spaces both for me and my teammates, be effective, try to define either with a pass, or scoring. That's how I matured... my only objective was always to try to get to the rival's side and score."
"I cannot foresee, but I can observe the game, see what's going on, see where we can cause damage, or be damaged ourselves. That's what I try to see as fast as I possibly can."
Thierry Henry recounting the iconic moment Arsenal won the league at White Hart Lane against their rivals Tottenham needing only one point to become champions that season.
"Titi, do you remember that game, Tottenham versus Arsenal?"
"Can you tell us that story?"
"We only needed one point to be champions. And at our rival's stadium."
"The cops visited us... 'If Arsenal wins, please don't celebrate.'"
"We were winning 2-0. Then 2-1... Robbie Keane scores on a penalty. 2-2!"
"Taricco started to celebrate in front of me."
"I told him, 'You know you're celebrating a tie?'"
"We needed one more point to win. He probably forgot."
"I didn't even want to celebrate that."
"But now, I'm going to celebrate."
"And to win at your rival's home stadium, it's even nicer."
Lionel Messi on his interview with Migue Granados discussing the viral internet rumors on Messi's "BIG" thing
"I'm going to ask a question... On behalf of my group of male friends, very machos..."
"Oh..."
"go..."
"What?"
"Don't be a silly putty... don't make yourself uncomfortable"
"What could be the BIG thing that makes you nervous..."
"'You will not be able to put this part' ok stop..."
"basic friends... basic male friends...
"It has gone viral..."
"Oh I know now..."
"I know... Go..."
"I mean if you don't want we won't talk about it"
"But we both know what we're talking about..."
"I imagine..."
"Are you ashamed?"
"That look on your face means we can't put this?"
"Well I don't know..."
"Well, it has gone very viral..."
"On top of that, the pink shorts don't help at all"
Lionel Messi on his interview with Migue Granados discussing his perspective on individual versus team accolades.
"No but... One more how does it affect you?"
"No, no, but it's what I was saying..."
"I've said it many times..."
"It is a very nice recognition but..."
"I was lucky to win everything"
"Champions, La Liga, Copa America, World Cup..."
"Those are the awards I care about"
"Individual awards..."
"Although it is a nice recognition to be there and be able to win them..."
"...The other ones are more important"
Zendaya on her interview with Fandango discussing the evolution of her character MJ in Spider-Man.
"I've never been in a situation where you're revisiting a character at a new point in their life."
"I feel like a little bit she's grown out of some of it... but at the heart, I think that's who she is."
"We kind of did a pass of some of the scenes..."
"...and then we did like a re-MJ-ifying pass where we're like, mm, she's a little not weird enough."
"Like we need to bring a little bit of that back, you know."
"She's still who she is at the core."
"Yes, let's keep the awkward MJ."
Hannah Cheramy on her interview with Customatic discussing the unexpected physical toll of her role on From.
"Have you ever surprised yourself on set?"
"You know what? I did not know of my screaming capabilities until From."
"Like I, it's not really something that you really rehearse or, or just do, uh, in public."
"So in the script they were like 'scream' and I was like, shit, if you want me to scream, I'm a scream."
"And yeah, people... people seem to like it and then I just kept doing it and I keep doing it now in seasons 4 and 5 too."
"So, it's actually really therapeutic and I really like screaming."
"I'm probably destroying my vocal cords and it's terrible for me, but I just do it."
Lionel Messi on his interview with Migue Granados kept it incredibly real about his complicated chapter at PSG, despite the lack of celebration from his club after the World Cup, his relationship with Mbappé and understanding the French fans' perspective.
Honestly, tell me, would you have preferred not to go there? To Paris..."
"Well... things turned out that way."
"Honestly it was not as I expected... but I always say that everything happens for a reason."
"And although I was not very comfortable, I got to be World Champion playing there."
"Good right? They can s*ck my..."
"Everything happens for a reason... and if it had to be like that..."
"How nice to come back like: 'Hiiiii'. Beautiful. Oh! and with Kylian there too!"
"No, honestly I have the best with him, with the other players too."
"But also, it was understandable..."
"I was in the country against which we won the world final and 'because of us' they couldn't be World champions again."
"But well, I was the only Argentine player who did not have a recognition apart from the other 25 players."
Ryan Reynolds on his interview with Andrew Garfield for Variety's Actors on Actors opens up about his late friend and mentor, Eric.
"He had this energy where he was this person... that for the rest of his life just showed up for people."
"I remember I called him once from Germany, and I said I was having a terrible time. I must have been 22, and I was homesick and heartbroken. I said, 'I don't know, I'm going to go to this place called the Grenadier Pub tomorrow.'... I got there finally the next day, it was in upper Northern England, and in the back of the pub, he was sitting there. He'd flown from Los Angeles."
"Like an angel on earth... He was a guy that never said no to an adventure."
Lionel Messi on his interview with Migue Granados about adapting to a new league and whether his prime level is dropping in MLS.
"Being honest..."
"Obviously, being a different league means the way of playing is different."
"Do you really feel your 'Messi prime level' is going down by playing here?"
"...when you play a game against an American team?"
"I really don't realize... maybe its like that."
"I prepare and I play the same as I always did..."
"but there is also a reality that I am older..."
"that I have 1000 matches on my back and time passes for everyone."
Bonnie Blue on her interview with Liam Tuffs revealing the shocking reason she would consent to sleeping with a rapist
"Would you knowingly sleep with a rapist?"
"Uh, yes."
"I'd prefer them to come and have consensual sex with me to doing that to someone else who hasn't consented."
"I would prefer them to come and use my body as opposed to somebody else's."
"Would you not think to yourself, 'You're a scumbag, you need to be in jail, not inside me?'"
"Of course, but I've not got the handcuffs. It's not my responsibility to put them away."
"Put it this way, I wouldn't knowingly sleep with a rapist."
"Yeah. Well, we're different."
Patrick Mahomes on his interview with Tom Brady about finding his competitive edge and the power of team confidence in high-pressure situations.
"You're obviously a spectacular player, but what do you see in your game where you're like, 'All right, I kind of have an edge on everybody else because of this?'"
"I mean obviously experience is helping me on some of these games just now, just being one of the older guys in the league."
"I think more than anything it's just we have a confidence, not only in myself but as a team, that we're going to get it done no matter what the situation is."
"And we've been in so many of these different situations that I think that is our edge."
"We don't panic whenever stuff doesn't go our way."
"We just know that we can make it right the next play."
"I think that experience and that confidence is the edge that we kind of have in some of these big games."
"'Cause we don't have to play guys like you anymore."
"You did fine against me, trust me."
"I maybe got you a couple times, but you got me plenty."
Tom Brady on interviewing Patrick Mahomes about how an elite quarterback affects the game by mastering game management to drive wins.
"When I watched you play this year, I said it on the broadcast."
"When you were younger—50 touchdown passes, high-flying, explosive offense."
"But the mark of a great quarterback is: 'I've got to find a way to win the game with this team, in this moment, with these players.'"
"People use the term 'manage the game' as a negative."
"I think it's the greatest compliment you can give a quarterback because nobody understands all the decisions thrust upon you."
"Whether it's a run play or an RPO, you're making decisions all the time, and they trust you to make the right call."
"How does that responsibility feel? 'Cause I'm sure you want that pressure on your shoulders."
"100%."
"Coach Reid has given me more and more as my career's gone on, pushing me to be a better version of myself."
"I learned a lot these last few years. You lose Tyreek, you lose receivers, and you have to build chemistry with new guys."
"Defenses adjusted to take away the deep shots, so I had to learn to be patient and manage the game."
"When you have a great defense, you realize you can't take those aggressive shots every time."
"You focus on making first downs and keeping your defense fresh."
"There's so much more to quarterbacking than what stats show."
"If you're winning the game, that's success. It's not about how you get there or how it looks."
Lionel Messi on his interview with NBC News breaking down his own athletic idols, the unmatched legacy of Diego Maradona, and the legendary competitors from other sports he considers the greatest of all time.
"So, um, you are a GOAT, right? Who are some other goats in other sports that you've looked up to or you study?"
"For us in Argentina, Maradona is the ultimate idol. He is the standard we all admire."
"I was young, but I got to see him play live. Diego went completely beyond the sport."
"When you talk about greatness in other disciplines, you have to look at someone like Michael Jordan and the massive impact he had."
"I have so much respect for Federer, Rafa, and Djokovic. Those three completely elevated tennis."
"Competing against each other for so long to be number one is exactly what made their era truly incredible to watch."
"I'm sure I'm leaving out so many great names, but if I had to highlight a few from basketball, LeBron and Steph are right there at the top."
"I admire them immensely because they all brought something completely unique to their respective games."
Michael Jordan on his interview with Gayle King discussing his relentless competitive drive.
"The joy of seeing competition, right? I'm a very competitive person."
"Still?"
"100%."
"Why?"
"Cause I thought you'd step back, you wanted a quieter life."
"I think I'm cursed."
"I'm cursed with this competitive gene that anything that I do is from a competitive lens, you know."
"And in some ways that keeps me young, it keeps me aggressively thinking positively."
"It helps me either understand everything that I'm involved on, connected with."
"It has to be some competitive, you know, things to that, you know."
"If it's getting dressed, I got to get dressed before my wife gets dressed, or I got to get dressed..."
"Michael."
"...make sure, you know, those types of things."
"That's, I'm cursed, that's just the way I am."
"And I try to use it in the best positive way that I can."
"So you're like, I got to get dressed before she does."
"No, I got to get in the shower and get in the bathroom before she comes in so she doesn't slow down my time that I can get to the golf course in time."
"I got to drop the kids off, I got to all the other things I got..."
"I'm looking, I'm like, are you okay? Are you okay?"
"Where do you think that comes from? I think that's funny."
"I don't know, I don't know."
"I think that my appetite to prove as a kid created this, this competitive thing within me that has transcended and taken over everything that I do."
Michael Jordan on his interview with Gayle King discussing his lawsuit against NASCAR and the fight for fair compensation: "Even if I get kicked out of the sport, even if I lose the lawsuit, I'm gonna wake up some people to understand what they're actually doing is wrong."
"People say you certainly changed the game of basketball and now they say with the lawsuit you've changed the sport of NASCAR. Was that your intention?"
"Yes... 100%."
"Well, when I got into the sport, obviously as I learned, it was a lot of things that I wasn't really happy about."
"And I felt like looking at it from a sport, the sport was not set up for success long-term for the individuals that's involved in the sport."
"And for the people that were putting on the show... I was one of those persons that put on a show and I always wanted to share in the gratitude of the success of the NBA or anything that I did."
"When you look at NASCAR, I felt like it was lopsided."
"And the people that were putting on the show was not getting the type of recognition, compensated fairly."
"We got to an opportunity where, okay, we need some changes."
"And even if I get kicked out of the sport, even if I lose the lawsuit, I'm gonna wake up some people to understand what they're actually doing is wrong."
"Now when I got into NASCAR, I can see how things was operating. It was lopsided. It was wrong."
Mo Salah on his interview with Mark Schwarzer reflecting on the pain of the 2018 Champions League final defeat, the mental pressure of being awarded an early penalty in another final 12 months later, and the exact moment he realized they had won it.
"2018 final was one that obviously there's a lot of disappointment, hurting your shoulder coming off in that game... Fast forward 12 months later, you're in another final, and you score what is it, after 106 seconds a penalty. At what point did you think, 'This is our night'?"
"I think there is something... I don't know how you call it in English, but something was flying in the air, once we get the penalty, it was here."
"And I don't know why it was here, in here. Something went in the stadium, but a small thing, is not a big thing."
"And I was like, 'Okay, we'll get the penalty after, I don't know, a few seconds or one minute, then I have to take it, because it's too much pressure. We just lost last season.'"
"Then something sign like, 'Maybe it's our night, our night.' So just I just rubbed it like this and I just tried to focus because the penalty in a final Champions League and just like I say, 'Okay, probably this is our night.'"
"And then obviously with the second goal goes in, 87th minute. At that point, that's the realization, right?"
"Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. You can not you can't guarantee unless like really, it's 2-0, last 15 minutes."
"And also in that time we had like probably most defense line in the world that time, so we just try to defend and get the result."