I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

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.

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

Many words do not a good prayer make what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God and the faith to back it up.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.