I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

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 blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.