I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

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.

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.

Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.