I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being

If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

Happiness is not being afraid.

Tithing is a sacred gift to health and wealth.

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Information doesn't kill you.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

I noticed that the crowds in the US seem to do a lot more moshing than European fans. But it's also different from venue to venue and really hard to say.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.