Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. (on breaking his leg)

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

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

Quite definitely a Bingley

If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said