Rio Ferdinand Quotes

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson)

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here. (on Sir Alex Ferguson)

I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)

Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.