I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

Touch my heart, feel my love, don't look at me.

We walk alone in the wilderness.

It is impossible for one to become happy in life, if one keeps holding on to the thoughts and beliefs that caused one's misery in the first place.

Food shouldn't be half-bad. It should be all good.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs...'

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.