I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.

You know the people, " said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.

Are you okay, man?""Yeah, I'm good."It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

Wear yourself proudly.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Move with your feet, the hands will follow.

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.