If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

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.

Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.

Some call it growing up. I call it life, and in my experience, it doesn't necessarily get easier over the years. But the eternal struggle is beautiful, and I'm happy to persevere.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.