First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

Well, that's an evil smile...

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

The people's safety is the law of God.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.