I think it's getting tougher and tougher, all the big teams are getting stronger and there's more of them.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Through your eyesI am learningto see myself.Through your heartI am learningto love myself.In the chrysalisof your acceptanceI can feel myselfbecoming.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?