Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

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.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?