If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

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'.

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

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

And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.