I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.

Happiness is a fortress.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had].

I'm not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.