Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.

You can't applaud a referee.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.

Health is wealth

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who