I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Create from the heart.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

My work is not about 'form follows function, ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

You make me feel like a natural man

Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

It can't always be a honeymoon