A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will. -pg. 329-

Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.