Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

Talent was not rare

I learn everyday what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I am patient with my needs, kind with my words, and respectful of my soft places.

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.