I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

Heavens, no, " Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.