I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

If you enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free!

He shushed her, laughing. “I’d like to be that spider, if that woman was you.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

You're hideous, you know that, right?