I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

I hope this match never ends. When the match ends, the memories begin.

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Great artists need great clients.

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

You can never be defeated in life, you are a learner.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.