I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'

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 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.

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.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.

I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

I feel very lucky and very blessed. I just hope that I can keep doing my job and that people keep liking what I do and that the opportunities continue. That's the best that I can hope for.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?