I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

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.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.